Nasa preparing mission to send lander to Europa, offering humanity's best ever chance of meeting aliens

Nasa might soon launch our best ever chance of meeting aliens. The space agency is putting together plans to send a lander to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons and perhaps the most likely place to harbour alien life anywhere near us. But first they will have to work out how they can actually land on a surface about which they know next to nothing. The agency started seriously exploring that possibility by commissioning a report on the value of sending a lander onto the icy surface of the moon. That report has now arrived and Nasa is looking to explore its findings with the scientific community.