The ambitious mission won't actually look for life, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment.
It is the first detailed investigation of Jupiter's moon Europa—which is believed to harbor an ocean so vast that it contains more water than anywhere else in the known universe (even Earth).
Europa's critical environment is its oceans. Europa has an ocean beanth its icy surface that may contain twice as much water as Earth’s oceans. That’s despite Europa being about the same size ...
transcript “Ignition. And liftoff! Liftoff of Falcon Heavy with Europa Clipper, unveiling the mysteries of an enormous ocean lurking beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa.” ...
Europa Clipper will serve as NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system, and it aims to determine whether the moon could be habitable for life ...
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