Later this year, NASA is launching its Europa Clipper spacecraft to the icy moon of Jupiter.
later this year may be able to directly detect cellular material ejected from the icy moon of Jupiter, raising the prospects for finding life.
One of these is the SUrface Dust Analyser , which is a type of instrument known as a mass spectrometer. It will collect material ejected from the moon to reveal its chemical composition, including potential organic molecules and salts.at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, who works on the instrument, and his colleagues have shown that it could detect fragments of cellular material, potentially providing evidence of current life.
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