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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(15, 36, 62);"><font size="5" class="">Joint MKI/EAPS Colloquium</font><span class="" style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Garamond;">The Fastest Road to Finding Life Beyond Earth</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 23pt; font-family: Garamond;">Jonathan Lunine<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Garamond;">Dec 6; 4:00pm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Garamond;">MIT Marlar Lounge (37-252)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><i class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Garamond;"><font size="4" class="">Refreshments at 3:45pm</font></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14pt;">Abstract:</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">Four bodies beyond Earth have environments that might support or have supported life, and of these, the most dynamic, isolated and Earth-like is the ocean
of Enceladus. The steps to detecting biological activity within Enceladus are rendered easier by the presence of a plume of ice and vapor emanating from its south pole. By exploring the plume with a modest, affordable payload, we might know within a generation
whether our solar system supported the genesis of life twice.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">Co-Hosts: Richard Binzel and Jason Soderblom<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<font size="4" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Garamond;">Sponso<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">r</span>ed by the MIT K<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">a</span>vli Institute for <span class="" style="position: relative; top: -0.5pt;">Ast<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">r</span>op<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">h</span>ysics
and Space Resea<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">r</span>ch (MKI),</span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span class="" style="font-family: Garamond;"><font size="4" class="">the Ast<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">r</span>op<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">h</span>ysics D<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">i</span>vision
of the MIT D<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">e</span>pa<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">r</span>tment of<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 2.7pt;"> </span>P<span class="" style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">h</span>ysics, and</font></span></p>
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<span class="" style="font-size: large; font-family: Garamond;">the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)</span></p>
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