NASA details mission to discover whether Europa moon is habitable

With potential oceans flowing below its icy surface, NASA thinks Jupiter's Europa moon is promising candidate to harbor organic life. As such, the space agency and its JPL laboratory are looking to send a lander there within a decade, and have detailed what it wants it to explore in a new paper. Key goals include measuring the organic content of surface and near-surface chemistry, exploring mineralogy, measuring the thickness and salinity of the oceans and ice, imaging surface formations and looking at microscopic ice and non-ice grains. Researchers also looked at potential landing sites, and were torn between a more interesting, active site like "Thera Macula" and a more stable location with ancient geology. NASA's Juno mission, launched in August 2011, is expected to help settle such issues when it probes Europa from orbit starting in 2016. Though it'd be hard to top Curiosity's setdown, a Europa landing could be even more dramatic, considering the moon is over 10 times farther away than Mars and never gets above minus 370 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Sandy Rios Knows Gays Are Capable of 'The Right Kind of Love ...

American Family Radio host Sandy Rios dedicated a long chunk of her program yesterday to responding to the widespread attention to her recent comparison of gay couple?s love to the ?love? Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro claimed he had for his prisoners.

Rios claimed she had been deliberately misunderstood, but then proceeded to repeat her claims in detail. She finally spoke directly to those who monitor her program, thanking us for finding her a wider audience and declaring, ?I stand by what we say?As unfortunate and uncomfortable, heartbreaking, irrational that seems to some of you that are so steeped in the homosexual lifestyle, you?re steeped in popular culture, it?s still the truth.?

Rios then went on to deliver a direct message to the LGBT people who were offended by her comments, saying that the fact that people were upset proves that she was telling the truth. ?If what we?re saying is not true, it should have no power over you,? she said.

But Rios has hope for gay people. She assured her listeners that gay people are ?capable of great love? because she sees the ?tremendous heartbreak in the homosexual community,? where ?there aren?t many lasting relationships ? maybe among lesbians, but certainly not among gay men.?

All this heartbreak, Rios concludes, shows that gay people could achieve ?the right kind of love? ? that is, opposite-sex marriage ? if they just tried.

If what we?re saying is not true, it should have no power over you, it shouldn?t bother you. Because I think in time, what?s true and what?s right, what works, what comports with reality will be lasting. So, let?s just see if your view of this is lasting. Let?s just see if homosexual marriage is all that you think it is, if it?s a pure and wonderful expression of love for two people.

Now, I would never say that homosexuals cannot love. They can, of course. Capable of great love. And I know there?s been tremendous heartbreak in the homosexual community ? and I?ve talked about this before ? heartbreak when you lose a loved one, heartbreak when you break up. Because, you know, there aren?t many lasting relationships ? maybe among lesbians, but certainly not among gay men, that?s not the norm.

So, there?s a lot of heartbreak, a lot of rejection when you get older, so I know that you?re capable and able. You?re humans, you love. The point is, the right kind of love. The right kind of love is life-giving. And the right kind of love is love for God, love for your natural family, love between a man and a woman and a woman and a man in marriage. Not cohabitating. There?s just some standards that God lays down.
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Keck's Exclusives: Bones Finally Plans a Wedding

Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) will at last marry her baby daddy, Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), on the upcoming season of Fox's Bones, it was revealed during their recent Comic-Con panel, moderated by yours truly. Now we can announce that the wedding is scheduled to take place in early November. The pair discusses the excitement ahead.

TV Guide Magazine: So you're ready to make it official?
Boreanaz: I really thought a wedding might be the last thing we'd see. We're doing it while we're still hot.

TV Guide Magazine: Brennan has said that since she's not a virgin, she won't wear white.
Deschanel: I didn't even wear white at my own wedding. But it seems like Brennan's willing to go more traditional because it means so much to Booth. She still might walk down the aisle in a Nigerian dress.

TV Guide Magazine: Who might be the maid of honor and best man?
Deschanel: Angela, her best friend, of course.
Boreanaz: I talked to [executive producer] Hart Hanson, and I think it might be Booth's former priest friend [House of Lies' Mather Zickel], whom we're going to meet in the first episode. And Booth's son, Parker, should be there.
Deschanel: I'd also like to see Brennan's dad, brother and cousin [played by real-life sis Zooey Deschanel]. And Cyndi Lauper's psychic character should sing.

TV Guide Magazine: Any elements from your own weddings you'd like to incorporate?
Boreanaz: Candles. The power went out at my wedding.
Deschanel: Our friend married us, so that would be nice.

TV Guide Magazine: In non-wedding news, Brennan will be assigned to jury duty, right?
Deschanel: [Laughs] I think she'll be an excellent juror. I got called to jury duty once. The case was about a man who claimed he got warts from a colonoscopy. I wanted to serve, but the case was too long.
Boreanaz: I've never, and I don't want to.

TV Guide Magazine: And Booth and Brennan will be going under cover to a couple's retreat. Ever experience anything similar?
Deschanel: I went to a dude ranch when I was a little girl. Does that count?
Boreanaz: No! I've been away on weekend retreats of love with my wife where you examine your own personal relationship. They give you stuff when you go to sleep. They used to give you chocolates; now it's toys.

TV Guide Magazine: There's also a case coming up where body parts turn up in canned beef stew.
Boreanaz: [Laughs] I'm sure Emily [who is vegan] is going to love that one!
Deschanel: It had better be fake beef!
Boreanaz: I just hope I'm not directing that episode!

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