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Icy Moons Probe

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Exploring submarine caverns kept liquid by the heat of volcanic plumes, the AUV Thalassa samples the life-forms coating mineral rich geothermal vents of Europa. It maintains a topside link to the nuclear meltprobe that delivered it to this subsurface ocean.

Commission for Australian Geographic magazine, Issue 129, along with abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art…

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Published: Mar 15, 2016

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Wawing!

This is outstanding, I hope this becomes a reality sometime in my lifetime! Great work!

OH! Europan biota! Always a fan ^_^.

(I should also add: Your pictures always look SO gorgeous ^_^.)

Abiogenisis

Mar 6, 2018

Thanks! Love those little icey jellies

SpaceInquiries

Aug 5, 2017

I wonder how hard it will be to prevent contamination with earth bacteria- certainly wouldn't want to induce a mass extinction or something

Abiogenisis

Oct 27, 2017

I think it would be very hard, which is why NASA has a planetary protection officer. Probably have to bath the probe in radiation

Ixante

Jul 31, 2017

your works are ever fascinating

Thanks

sorry but it kinda looks like subnatica concept art

This aged like wine

Why is that a sorry?

This would be a dream come true for me! gorgeous artwork!

Thanks!

Yay!

Epic !

...And then a Gaint Squid alien eat the Miltumillion Device & the space explorations deemed to expensive and stopped.
Only 2 years later what's lef of the humanity Went back to Stone Age after the WWIII

...The Winner ? Europan Lifeforms !

Abiogenisis

Oct 14, 2016

If a giant monster ate the robot, people would be even MORE excited about space XD

grisador

Oct 16, 2016

I didn't thought the fear leads to Adventure