News: NASA’s Europa Mission may or may not find hints of life on Europa, but it will fire a million imaginations
1. Europa Clipper Mission is a NASA Mission to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s 95 known moons.
2. Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission. The mission is expected to reach Jupiter in 2030 and will begin its scientific operations in 2031.
3. Its key goal is to determine whether there are places below the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, that could support life.
4. It will conduct dozens of close flybys of Jupiter’s moon Europa to gather detailed measurements to investigate the moon.
5. SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket has been used to launch the Europa Clipper Mission.
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