You think Mars is cool, but what about all the water that's close to the surface of Europa, the water that comes up through cracks from under kilometer-thick ice to refreeze at the surface? Or the water/ice geysers on Enceladus that make snow?

Europa may very well have life on it, because, to paraphrase Neil deGrasse Tyson, everywhere we find water on Earth, be it the Arctic or even the Dead Sea, we find life. Imagine that. Life somewhere that isn't earth! What kind of crazy stuff could it even be? What would it even look like? So many possibilities and so awesome to think about. And if there's life under Europa's ice, what about Enceladus? The water is even closer to the surface there!

On Mars they're finding evidence of ancient streambeds which means that there was above-ground, moving water on the planet at some point, and who knows what else Curiosity will find there, I'm excitedly checking its Twitter feed every day for news.

Check out this video, if you haven't seen it already. It's long, but it's worth every second. Space has fallen out of our pop culture, to be sure, but it's still awesome, and it's just a matter of rekindling that same fire we had in the 60s and 70s. That and actually funding NASA again.