Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> “Follow the water” is the mantra of those who search for life beyond Earth. Where there’s water, there may be life. Join us on a tour of watery solar system bodies that hold promise for biology. Dig beneath the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa, and plunge into the jets of Enceladus, Saturn’s satellite.</p> <p>And let’s not forget the Red Planet. Mars is rusty and dusty, but it wasn’t always a world of dry dunes. Did life once thrive here? Also, the promise of life in the exotic hydrocarbon lakes of Titan.</p> <p>Science-fiction author Robert J. Sawyer joins us, and relates how these exotic outposts have prompted imaginative stories of alien life. </p> <h2>Guests: </h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.sfwriter.com/">Robert J. Sawyer</a></strong> – Hugo award-winning science fiction author</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.seti.org/users/cynthia-phillips">Cynthia Phillips</a></strong> – Planetary geologist at the <span class="caps">SETI</span> Institute</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/alexanderghayes/About-Me">Alexander Hayes</a></strong> – Planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.seti.org/users/rachel-mastrapa">Rachel Mastrapa</a></strong> – Planetary scientist for <span class="caps">NASA</span> and the <span class="caps">SETI</span> Institute</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~rlillis/">Robert Lillis</a></strong> – Space and planetary scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley</li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-lleno-de-vida/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>First released February 27, 2012.</p>
