Water on Jupiter moon? // U.S. probe to seek ocean

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. Project Galileo scientists saidSunday they hope to verify indications received from Voyager 2 adecade ago that Jupiter's second satellite, Europa, contains a bodyof water on the scale of an earthly ocean beneath its icy and rockycrust.

The eight-year mission to Jupiter and its major satellites isscheduled for launching by the space shuttle Atlantis on Oct. 12. Itmarks the first attempt to follow up the discoveries of Voyager 1 andVoyager 2 a decade ago.

The objectives were described at a news conference conductedsimultaneously at Kennedy Space Center and at the Jet PropulsionLaboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

The scientists …