NASA Plans to Drill Into Europa’s Crust

Rae Paoletta, Gizmodo: Since early 2016, a NASA-employed Science Definition Team of 21 researchers has been crafting a plan to send a robotic probe to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, located over 390 million miles from Earth. On February 7, that team delivered their first report to NASA, detailing their recommendations for that future mission, which will search for life by drilling toward the subterranean ocean scientists strongly suspect to exist beneath the icy moon’s surface.