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by Symmetry 3357 days ago
Europa doesn't have an atmosphere and it's laying at the bottom of a pretty steep gravity well, over 10 km/s from Jupiter intercept to the surface. Earth to Mars or vice versa microbial transport is pretty credible and you might even have a dormant cell from elsewhere falling down to Europa in a meteor. But I'm not sure I'd swallow any cell surviving Europa lithobraking.