Liftoff! NASA’s Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter
3 days ago · 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, Oct. 14, 2024. After launch, the spacecraft plans to fly by Mars in February 2025, then back by Earth in December 2026, using the gravity of each planet to increase ...
NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter: Mission updates
3 days ago · Europa Clipper, a $5 billion flagship mission to an icy moon of Jupiter, is currently scheduled to lift off at 12:06 p.m. EDT (1606 GMT) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a tiny ...
NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in ... - AP News
3 days ago · This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Europa Clipper spacecraft over the moon, Europa, with Jupiter at background left. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to ...
NASA and SpaceX Launch Europa Clipper to a Jupiter Moon
3 days ago · The $5.2 billion Europa Clipper mission is the first by NASA devoted to filling in the blanks to the question of habitability on these ocean worlds. “I think Europa is certainly the most likely ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launches to find whether life …
3 days ago · A mission that will investigate the potential habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system — Jupiter’s moon Europa — has lifted off.
NASA launches Europa Clipper mission to an icy moon of Jupiter - NBC News
3 days ago · Now, humanity is poised to get a closer look at Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon. At 12:06 p.m. ET Monday, NASA launched a mission to Europa, dubbed Europa Clipper. The largest spacecraft the ...
Europa Clipper - NASA Science
4 days ago · Europa Clipper will try to determine if Jupiter's icy moon Europa currently has habitable conditions. Europa Clipper will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) to reach Jupiter in April 2030. The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter, and conduct 49 close flybys of Europa.
NASA’s Webb Discovers New Feature in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
Oct 19, 2023 · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new, never-before-seen feature in Jupiter’s atmosphere. The high-speed jet stream, which spans more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) wide, sits over Jupiter’s equator above the main cloud decks.
A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA’s Juno …
May 25, 2017 · Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet ...
Journey to a Water World: NASA’s Europa Clipper Is Ready to …
4 days ago · In fact, it’s the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission. The journey to Jupiter is a long one — 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) — and rather than taking a straight path there, Europa Clipper will loop around Mars and then Earth, gaining speed as …