Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• discuss processes upon and within, and internal structure of, differentiated icy bodies (primarily large satellites) in comparison with the terrestrial planets

• describe the conditions that may be required to originate and foster life in an icy body and discuss the likelihood of their having occurred

• recognise the moral and ethical issues of landing spacecraft on potential life-bearing worlds and appreciate the need for appropriate professional codes of conduct in this respect.