Medicine & TechnologyNASA's Europa Clipper mission, launching later this year, aims to investigate Jupiter's icy moon's habitability, yet may inadvertently detect life. Read the article for more details.
In October, NASA's Europa Clipper will launch, carrying a multifaceted dispatch featuring 2.6 million public-submitted names and a poetic tribute. Read the article for more details.
NASA's new probe will observe Jupiter's icy moon Europa and investigate whether it could have conditions suitable for life. Check out the video of how it is assembled in this article.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket will be sending NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft to the icy moon of Jupiter instead of the original plan of sending it via the Space Launch System (SLS), saving NASA $2 billion.
What would you pack for the 390 million mile trip to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa? Last year, NASA posed that question to a bevy of scientists and after whittling down the final 33 proposals, they have decided on nine items that will rocket aboard the Europa Clipper, which is set to blast off sometime after 2020.