Is there life on Europa? Can oceans of Europa support life?
Is there life on Europa? Can oceans of Europa support life?
NASA Published on Jun 17, 2015 on youtube:
Could a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa have the ingredients to support life?
Here's how NASA's mission to Europa would find out.
Last edited by CasperParks; 06-19-2015 at 08:01 AM.
Europa Clipper: NASA?s Mission to Jupiter's Ocean Moon (Mission Trailer)
Learn more about Europa by visiting NASA's website, click here.
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Facts About Europa
Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter?s 95 moons.
It's the sixth-closest moon to the planet.
Europa may be one of the most promising places in our solar system to find present-day environments suitable for some form of life beyond Earth. Scientists believe a saltwater ocean lies beneath its icy shell, holding twice as much water as Earth's global ocean. It also may have the chemical elements that are key ingredients to life. NASA is launching its Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 10, 2024, to determine whether there are places below Europa's surface that could support life.
NASA's Europa Clipper Mission Launches From Kennedy Space Center
(Highlights)
Posted Youtube, October 14th 2024
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Highlights from the Oct. 14, 2024, launch of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will travel 1.8 billion miles to study Jupiter's ocean moon Europa. The spacecraft lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT (9:06 a.m. PDT).
Europa Clipper is NASA's first mission dedicated to studying Europa, which likely has a salty ocean beneath its icy surface. The spacecraft is equipped with nine science instruments and a gravity experiment. The mission's main goal is to determine whether Europa has the right conditions to support life.
Europa Clipper will arrive at Jupiter in 2030 and make 49 flybys of Europa during its prime mission, which concludes in 2034.
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