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Originally Posted by kahljorn
yea id like to see one landed on the moon they suspect has life on it. but then don't most of the gallilean moons have some crazy shit going on from gravity/proximity to jupiter?
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The problem with landing a probe on Europa is contamination of the local environment (ocean under the ice) with earthly bacteria. As far as tidal forces are concerned, you are correct in that they are cited as one of the reasons Io is so volcanically active. They may also be partly responsible for Europa's subsurface ocean remaining liquid.
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Originally Posted by kahljorn
a probe wouldn't have to be a rover. they already crashed a probe there to try to get information before. As far as I remember it was relatively successful.
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Yes, this was the Huygens probe I referred to briefly above that "crash" landed on Titan. "Relatively successful" is putting it mildly - it was and still is a monumental achievement in space exploration on a number of levels.
As far as I am aware NASA (or any other space agency) has never crash-landed a probe on any of the four Galileian satellites.