NASA’s Europa Clipper Sets Sail for Jupiter
Mission will investigate the potential habitability of the moon’s subsurface ocean.
Mission will investigate the potential habitability of the moon’s subsurface ocean.
Kennedy Space Center is battening down the hatches as the storm gathers strength over the Gulf of Mexico.
Space agency is gearing up to send Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft it has developed for a planetary mission, on a 1.8-billion-mile journey.
Spacecraft is expected to begin orbiting Jupiter and examining its moon, Europa, in 2030.
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission will spend the next eight years on a voyage to study the gas giant and three of its water-bearing moons