Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game of Curtailments, in which the last letter of one word is removed to make another. For example: When the family gathers around the ________, it's clear that home is where the _______ is. This is part of a complete episode.
Here's a curtailment I came up with. Might be too easy for readers of this forum, but I thought I'd give it a shot ...
Although scientists have been searching for evidence of water, they're probably not going to find a ___ on ___.
Any takers?
marsh ... Mars
and to John's: hearth ... heart
And, since Curiosity did not make it to one of the Galilean moons, it positively will not find an _____ on ______.
Emmett
Well that didn't take long.
Galilean moons: Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Io.
So by the process of elimination, the solution to your curtailment can only be: I ... Io.
Or did I miss something obvious? Don't tell me ... let me keep guessing if I'm wrong.
Ion on Io, maybe?