NASA launched mission to investigate a potentially habitable ocean world

This Monday, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, designed to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa, was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The event was broadcast live on NASA’s official website.

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According to NASA, Europa Clipper is the first spacecraft focused on studying an ocean world covered in ice in our solar system, and aims to determine if the moon could be habitable.

This US$5.2 billion mission began to take shape in 2013, but throughout this process it had to go through great challenges, including technical problems.

Clipper carries nine instruments and a gravity experiment to investigate the ocean which lies beneath Europa’s thick ice sheet. The moon’s ocean is estimated to contain twice as much liquid water as Earth’s oceans.

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“The instruments work together to answer our most pressing questions about Europe. We will learn what makes Europa tick, from its core and rocky interior to its ocean and ice shell, to its very thin atmosphere and the space environment that surrounds it.”Robert Pappalardo, project scientist for the mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.

It should be noted that the spacecraft carries more than 2.6 million names sent by people from countries around the world and a poem by American poet laureate Ada Limón.

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