ikenbot:  Terraformed Europa  What if we could see how the Jovian moon Europa would look like if its ocean weren't frozen over? This may just be a mere illustrative depiction as done by an artist but it still raises our curiosity and imagination. If creatures lived on such an ocean world without the freezing temperatures who knows what kind of species would rise what kind of intelligence they'd have, adaptation skills, and size! But let me not downplay the fact that species have been shown to survive even on freezing temperatures. This is why I love artistic representations on observations we've witnessed in nature. The 'what if' sensations shoot through the roof, and that's okay.     Europa as It Is Today: Jupiter's icy moon Europa is slightly smaller than the Earth's Moon. Like the Earth, Europa is thought to have an iron core, a rocky mantle and a surface ocean of salty water.      Unlike on Earth, however, this ocean is deep enough to cover the whole surface of Europa, and being far from the sun, the ocean surface is globally frozen over.      (Summary: NASA) Image: Anderpeich
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