Tag: Europa Clipper

The Europa Clipper is a NASA space mission designed to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Scheduled for launch in the 2020s, the mission aims to investigate the moon’s icy shell and subsurface ocean, assessing its potential habitability for life. The spacecraft will carry a suite of scientific instruments to conduct detailed reconnaissance of Europa’s surface and analyze its composition, geology, and ice crust. Key goals include measuring the thickness of the ice shell, identifying plume activity, and characterizing the moon’s ocean, which is believed to be in contact with a rocky mantle, potentially creating the conditions for life.