SHARKS AND OUTER SPACE?

Introduction

Let's be honest. No matter how jazzed you are about great whites and black holes, you probably didn't come to Discovery Space for your daily Shark Week fix. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a corner of Discovery less likely to offer exciting tidbits about blood-frothed waters and gilled horrors.

As it turns out, however, there are at least five fascinating links between these Earth-bound killers of the deep blue and the mysteries of the outer dark.

No, the ice-capped oceans of Europa aren't teaming with hammerheads. NASA, so far, has no plans to put a goblin shark on the moon. Still, the connections are fascinating -- and just when you thought it was safe to go back into orbit.

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