NASA Begins Assembling Europa Clipper, SUV-Sized Mission To Find life On Jupiter's Icy Moon
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NASA's Europa Clipper mission will try to find if Jupiter's moon Europa has conditions to support life.
American space agency NASA has started building the Europa Clipper spacecraft that will launch in 2024. The mission's purpose is to find if Jupiter's moon Europa has conditions to support life.
The Europa Clipper mission will conduct detailed reconnaissance of icy moon of Jupiter. NASA said that scientists are "almost certain" a vast ocean lies beneath Europa's icy shell.
"The mission will send a highly capable, radiation-tolerant spacecraft into a long, looping orbit around Jupiter to perform repeated close flybys of the icy moon," the space agency said on its website.
NASA said understanding Europa's habitability will help scientists better understand how life developed on Earth and the potential for finding life beyond our planet.
