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Is there life on Europa?

Kevin P. Hand1

BOOK REVIEWEDUnmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon

by Richard Greenberg

Praxis/Springer: 2008. 278 pp. £17.50/$27.50

In the field of astrobiology, the discovery of life beyond Earth sits like a gem inside the nested Russian dolls of physics, geology, chemistry and, ultimately, biology. Efforts to understand the habitability of worlds within our Solar System began with physical and astronomical surveys, and have now moved on to the challenge of cracking open the geological secrets of key destinations such as Mars and the large, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

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