NASA is set to go on a mission to explore one of the most promising places within our solar system that could potentially harbor life. But it's not a planet - it's actually one of Jupiter's 95 moons.
NASA says the Europa Clipper is ready to launch to Jupiter's moon, Europa, next month. Here's what you need to know about the mission.NASA is set to go on a mission to explore one of the most promising places within our solar system that could potentially harbor life. But it's not a planet - it's actually one of Jupiter's 95 moons.is ready to launch to Jupiter's moon, Europa.
The Europa Clipper is set to leave in just a matter of weeks, and one of the goals is to determine if the ocean underneath the ice surface could contain ingredients for life. "What we have is a moon about the size of our moon, yet with we believe an ocean that has twice the water of all the Earth's oceans together. So we're going to explore this ocean world and understand whether the conditions exist for this environment to be habitable," said Project Manager Jordan Evans.
"We are not landing, that's one of the elegant parts of this mission," said Evans. "We actually orbit Jupiter and every three weeks we fly by into that radiation environment to do the science we want to do."
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