I love the comments:
"damn i almost thought this was about Mercury messenger... an OSX messenger app..."
"I'm just glad we have an atmosphere"
"The US is in the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression... and we're spending all this money... for this? What a waste. Get rid of NASA - it will save us trillions! "
sic :-(
Europe is less far and there is also an ocean beneath the surface (at least we think...), and it's bigger. Nasa planned a mission to Europe some years ago but it was cancelled because of budget cut because of... war in Irak !