[1] My first nano involved setting up for a one-way trip to Europa, featuring a craft capable of melting into the ice to get out of the radiation once it arrived.
[2] Years ago there was an invited talk at the AAS about Io. The speaker started by saying he'd worried for years whether to pronounce it "EYE-oh" or "EEE-oh", and then heard a radio spot about the moon, introduced as "Jupiter's moon TEN." Yeah, after that, anything will do.
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Date: 2018-01-20 11:57 pm (UTC)[1] My first nano involved setting up for a one-way trip to Europa, featuring a craft capable of melting into the ice to get out of the radiation once it arrived.
[2] Years ago there was an invited talk at the AAS about Io. The speaker started by saying he'd worried for years whether to pronounce it "EYE-oh" or "EEE-oh", and then heard a radio spot about the moon, introduced as "Jupiter's moon TEN." Yeah, after that, anything will do.