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'Abominable Snow Aliens' Comic Strip Explores Life on Earth During Alien Invasion

By Miriam Kramer
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'The Abominable Snow Aliens of Europa' follows the fictional adventures of real NASA scientist Kevin Hand.
'The Abominable Snow Aliens of Europa' follows the fictional adventures of real NASA scientist Kevin Hand. (Image credit: <a href="http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_comics&msg=&id=&task=&ser=3&pageNo=1">Astrobiology Magazine</a>)

What would life be like if aliens from Europa invaded Earth? A weekly comic strip from Astrobiology Magazine attempts to answer that question.

Titled "The Abominable Snow Aliens of Europa," the comic follows the fictional adventures of real NASA scientist Kevin Hand during an exceedingly strange climate event on Earth. The comic is now in its ninth week and still going strong. A new strip is released on Sundays.

"Astrobiologists are keen to peek beneath Europa's crazy-quilt patchwork ice, but missions to penetrate the ice and send a probe are decades away," Astrobiology Magazine representatives said in an announcement. "In the meantime, we can only dream about what, if any, strange creatures might be swimming in that alien sea."

You can read "The Abominable Snow Aliens of Europa" online now.

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Miriam Kramer
Miriam Kramer
Staff Writer

Miriam Kramer joined Space.com as a Staff Writer in December 2012. Since then, she has floated in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight, felt the pull of 4-Gs in a trainer aircraft and watched rockets soar into space from Florida and Virginia. She also served as Space.com's lead space entertainment reporter, and enjoys all aspects of space news, astronomy and commercial spaceflight.  Miriam has also presented space stories during live interviews with Fox News and other TV and radio outlets. She originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee where she and her family would take trips to dark spots on the outskirts of town to watch meteor showers every year. She loves to travel and one day hopes to see the northern lights in person. Miriam is currently a space reporter with Axios, writing the Axios Space newsletter. You can follow Miriam on Twitter.