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

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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.


https://news.sky.com/story/nasa-conf...-life-11789889

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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)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=E8HQes6lPxo

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They strongly suspect there's a liquid ocean under Europa's ice crust. It has its own magnetic field which is possibly induced by Jupiter's field. The moon Io ejects particles that are accelerated to 300 km/s, and they bombard the other moons. There's no sign of craters on Europa probably because the crust renews itself.

Past and future missions.

10/11/24 (17:55)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJO_9auJhJQ

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Europa Report (1:30:25)
Excellent, very underrated sf movie

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-nvRoQGaE

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Europa
Shortly after the first NASA unmanned Voyager mission to Jupiter, in March, 1979, Richard C. Hoagland published in Star & Sky magazine a radical new theory -- regarding implications stemming from Voyager's historic fly-by and data return from one of the 'Galilean moons':

Hoagland proposed that a planet-wide ocean still exists under the tens-of-miles-thick sulfur-tinged ice now completely covering Europa. Further, that in that extremely ancient ocean -- the only other planetary 'near-by' liquid water that may have persisted from the beginnings of the solar system (other than on Earth)--

Life may have once originated - an alien type of life that, because of the present uniqueness of Europa in the entire solar system - currently might still exist ...

CONTINUE: https://www.enterprisemission.org/europa.html