The Europa Clipper mission is the first to study Jupiter's moon Europa in detail, it said on its website NASA.
As written, there is scientific evidence that the necessary ingredients for life may be hidden on Jupiter's fourth largest moon. The spacecraft will travel about 2.9 billion kilometers to reach Jupiter in April 2030. Europa Clipper will fly by Jupiter's moons about 49 times, which will last for about four years.
The countdown to the launch has already begun on Monday afternoon. NASA is live streaming the largest planetary probe ever built leaving Earth.
We can obtain new information about extraterrestrial life
As we wrote, the Europa Clipper probe, with its thirty-meter-long solar panels and six-ton weight, is the largest planetary probe ever built. Europa is the fourth largest moon of Jupiter, discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 and named after the Phoenician princess Europa. The moon is larger than both Pluto and Eris, and is a rocky moon with few craters.
Europa is barely ten percent smaller than the Moon. Its surface is covered in ice, and beneath it lie oceans of lukewarm liquid water. According to our current concepts and knowledge, all the components necessary for the development of life are presented here. Anyone who arrives here for the first time could certainly enter the history books as the “discoverer of extraterrestrial life.”
The spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in April 2030 to use its instruments to scan the moon's icy crust and core ocean for life. Previous missions revealed the presence of a salty ocean beneath the icy surface, containing more than twice the amount of water found in Earth's oceans.
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