Naked Science will look at Alien Life

I just heard from Richard Greenberg (NASA) that National Geographic's Naked Science show will be talking about Alien Life on April 1st. (There is room for a joke or two about the date, I suppose!) Part of the show will involve Richard talking about Europa.

You may remember the Europa-Richard Green connection (and all the politics and controversy, and interesting science connected with that) from this review of Richard's excellent book.

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