NASA's Europa Clipper Hits Huge Milestone In Hunt For Life On Jupiter's Moon

[discocrisco01]

This event sounds exciting for astronomy geeks like myself

NASA has big hopes for Jupiter's moon Europa, and the American space agency has just dotted the i's and crossed the t's on the spacecraft that will fly out there to see if it can actually support life.

Europa Clipper faces a long journey, with Jupiter orbiting the Sun at a far more distant elliptical path than Earth, but what it could find there may make that all worthwhile.

The Europa Clipper project is the way NASA plans to find out for sure, with the agency confirming that the spacecraft has now completed its Critical Design Review.

Radiation levels are high, and the surface temperatures are low; it means Europa Clipper needs to be both tough enough to survive those conditions, but also carry instruments sensitive enough to get the data NASA and its scientists need.

[AllyCat]

1. Sounds a bit like The Midnight Sky

Or, the movie is about real time is more like it. Super exciting stuff! Maybe there is a planet B.

[wcmagumba]

2. Not supposed to go there...oh nooos....

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.