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    Default NASA confirms mission to discover if Jupiter moon Europa can support life



    NASA is moving ahead with an ambitious mission to explore a moon of Jupiter and discover whether it could support life.

    The icy world Europa has the smoothest surface of any known solid object in the solar system, which - coupled with its apparent youth - has led scientists to believe that it could harbour an ocean beneath its outer crust.

    It is a theory that has been well supported by a number of recent discoveries, including what were believed to be plumes of water spewing from the surface, as seen by astronomers through the Hubble Space Telescope.

    Such conditions may mean extra-terrestrial biology is present, and NASA has given the all-clear for its Europa team to complete the final design of a spacecraft dedicated to exploring the moon.

    It is hoped that the Europa Clipper vessel may be ready to launch as early as 2023, although the US space agency has only committed to it being good to go by 2025.


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    Default Re: NASA confirms mission to discover if Jupiter moon Europa can support life

    The current estimate for the mission is 5 billion dollars and the age of the moon is 4.5 billion. The launch date might occur in October of 2024 and will arrive in 2030. They suspect the vast ocean under the ice of Europa could harbor life. The Europa Lander is a proposed mission that'll be sent in 2027 to compliment the orbiter.

    Europa Clipper

    Europa in the movie 2010: The Year we Made Contact.

    04/28/22 (11:40)


    Last edited by Inversion; 25th February 2024 at 05:11.

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