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I mentioned the movie Europa Report in the #Europa thread yesterday. It's an amazing piece of science fiction about this moon.
But there are plenty of interesting takes on life in a subsurface ocean in SF! Let's have a look at a few...
But there are plenty of interesting takes on life in a subsurface ocean in SF! Let's have a look at a few...
'A Darkling Sea' by James Cambias is an interesting novel featuring a civilization in an exoplanetary subsurface ocean. Much recommended!
goodreads.com/book/show/1793…
goodreads.com/book/show/1793…
"Innumerable Glimmering Lights", a short story by Rich Larson, has no human characters, but that doesn't mean they aren't relatable. They're the right mix of alien and familiar, and it would be interesting to see a larger piece of the world crafted there.
goodreads.com/book/show/3694…
goodreads.com/book/show/3694…
I promised an #Enceladus thread yesterday; it starts here! Let's take a look at this tiny, but all the more interesting icy moon of Saturn! 🪐 
Though discovered already in the late 18th century by William Herschel, we had long known extremely little about it. 🔭
That changed with the Voyager flybys! 🛰️
That changed with the Voyager flybys! 🛰️
This image was taken by Voyager 2 on August 25, 1981, from about 110,000 km away. It shows cratering, but also bright ice, grooves, some crater-poor areas. That suggested parts of the surface were very young - the tiny moon was active!
