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Ordinarily, a body the size of Io should have cooled off long ago, making volcanoes impossible. But for every pass the moon makes around Jupiter, it makes several passes by its large, slower-orbiting sister moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Every time Io does that, the gravitational tug of these nearby satellites gives it a twang. On Earth, the gravity of just one moon is sufficient to cause the oceans to rise and fall in great crashing tides. On Io, the gravitational influence of three nearby moons is enough to distort the shape of the world itself, causing...
...above the surrounding ice. Since only 10% of an iceberg shows above the water, that means these measure a mile or so from top to bottom--and so, therefore, does the planet-wide ice crust from which they came. On the scale of a 2,000-mile-wide moon, that's not much of a crust...
...atmosphere fully 60% denser than Earth's, forming a sort of photochemical haze that appears to be full of the stuff of prebiology. The problem is that Titan is cold. With temperatures hovering near -290[degrees]F and no signs yet of significant heat to drive chemical reactions, the moon could be awash in organics that are nevertheless unable to combine in biologically useful ways...
...many candidates have come across as petit-politicians rather than students in favor of honest change. As a political outsider, I do not want to hear about political liasons and campaign finance problems in my student government, nor do I want candidates to run on platforms that promise the moon. Candidates should have a sense of humility about what they are doing and a realistic sense of the council's capabilities...
...just fell out of the sky" in Long Beach, California; a farmer who threw machinery and dead cows into a hole on his property and claimed that they "never hit bottom"; and an interview with Richard Hoagland, who claims the government is suppressing news of alien structures on the Moon and Mars...