#75 - Dr. Kevin Peter Hand - Exploring Alien Oceans

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Episode 75 features Dr. Kevin Peter Hand. Kevin Peter Hand is a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he has served as deputy chief scientist for solar system exploration and is leading an effort to land a spacecraft on the surface of Europa. How do we know Europa has a subsurface ocean? Could there be life there? What would that life be like? All those questions are answered and much more!

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Kevin's opinions do not represent the opinions of NASA or JPL. They are solely his.

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