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\u201cFollow the water\u201d is the mantra of those who search for life beyond Earth. Where there\u2019s 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\u2019s moon Europa, and plunge into the jets of Enceladus, Saturn\u2019s satellite.\nAnd let\u2019s not forget the Red Planet. Mars is rusty and dusty, but it wasn\u2019t always a world of dry dunes. Did life once thrive here? Also, the promise of life in the exotic hydrocarbon lakes of Titan.\nScience-fiction author Robert J. Sawyer joins us, and relates how these exotic outposts have prompted imaginative stories of alien life.\nGuests:\n\n\nRobert J. Sawyer \u2013 Hugo award-winning science fiction author\n\n\nCynthia Phillips \u2013 Planetary geologist at the SETI Institute\n\n\nAlexander Hayes \u2013 Planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley\n\n\nRachel Mastrapa \u2013 Planetary scientist for NASA and the SETI Institute\n\n\nRobert Lillis \u2013 Space and planetary scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nFirst released February 27, 2012.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices