The ambitious mission won't actually look for life, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable ...
Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface.
The Europa Clipper spacecraft is preparing to launch this week, aiming to discover if the hidden life exists on Jupiter's ...
ORLANDO, Fl - NASA's 6-year-long mission is set to launch Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
These images will give us the most-detailed map of Europa yet ... Juno's camera took this image of Jupiter's southern hemisphere with moons Io (left) and Europa (right) visible in the background.
Jupiter has 95 moons and Io, which Galileo discovered through ... Pettine broke down Juno's flyby maps to establish complex volcanic surface patterns. Matching her work against theory, she found ...
NASA is sending a spacecraft to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to find out if there ... to produce high-resolution images and composition maps of Europa's surface and thin atmosphere, an ice ...
The moon, one of Jupiter’s four largest, is covered in a thick icy ... Those include visible-light cameras that’ll map Europa at a much better resolution than previous missions, including ...
Jupiter has dozens of moons; the four largest are known as the ... does have the ingredients to form and sustain life; and to map Europa's geology, looking for signs of recent tectonic activity ...
The object was Jupiter, along with four of its moons ... the Clipper will make nearly 50 flybys of Europa allowing it to map almost the entire moon at high resolution. There are no life seeking ...