NASA’s Europa Clipper, launching in October 2024, will embark on a five-and-a-half-year journey to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Europa is considered the second best place in our solar system to find extraterrestrial life. The mission is to investigate the moon’s subsurface ocean and its potential to support life by analyzing its chemical composition and geologic activity.
Related Posts
The Viewpoint: NASA’s ‘Curiosity’ Rover Discovers Key Organic Molecules on Mars
NASA’s ‘Curiosity’ Rover Discovers Key Organic Molecules on Mars NASA’s ‘Curiosity’ Rover Discovers Key Organic Molecules on Mars…
This Odd Star Type Is Covered With Stellar “Ashes”—And Its Origins May Be Quite Explosive
A pair of new research fresh out of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society looks set…
High School Student Develops AI to Discover 1.5 Million Unknown Space Objects
At a Glance A high school student from California has made a groundbreaking contribution to astronomy by developing…
Astronomers are getting better at detecting asteroids before they hit Earth – and it could save us from catastrophe
Nasa/JPL-Caltech Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, one metre in diameter,…