NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated here with Jupiter in the background) will come within 16 miles of the moon's surface. For more than a quarter century, scientists have wanted to send ...

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Europa Clipper is NASA's mission to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and determine whether its underground ocean is habitable. The mission launched on Oct. 14, 2024, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket ...

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Here’s how it works. NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand how habitable Jovian satellite, with its vast salty ocean wrapped ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian ...

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might host life. It was the 1980s, and Buratti was a graduate student ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex ... [+] 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday ...

The solar-powered spacecraft Europa Clipper ascended above clear skies through Earth’s atmosphere on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is expected to ...

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

A NASA spacecraft is about to commence a six-year journey to the Jupiter moon of Europa to undertake the historic task of searching the icy ocean world for signs that it could sustain life.

If all goes well, the Europa Clipper will brake into orbit around Jupiter in April 2030, setting up 49 close flybys of the frigid moon Europa, an ice-covered world with an interior warmed by the ...