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    How would you create artificial gravity on Europa?

    Europa is about the same size as our own Moon and has a similar surface gravity. Since it has a perfectly respectable gravity field of its own, there is not likely to be a need for anything greater. In general, however, the only way we know to create "artificial" gravity is to spin the subject in a centrifuge; this is not really gravity, but most of the effects are the same, and we can control the strength by adjusting the speed of the centrifuge.
    April 29, 2003