Europa Clipper MISSION to Determine Whether Icy Moon Has Signs for Life
We believe the environment is just perfect for the potential development of life.
The discovery by Galileo of four brilliant moons circling Jupiter in 1610 shattered the long-standing belief that all celestial bodies revolved around the Earth, which had been maintained for centuries prior. The Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is scheduled for launch in 2024, is expected to discover data that will profoundly change our view of the solar system.
In terms of distance from Jupiter, Europa is Jupiter’s sixth closest moon and has a similar size to our own. Europa’s surface is salty, liquid ocean is nearly certain to exist according to data gathered by the Galileo space probe—launched in 1989 and
