Space

Europa Dog Clipper Starts Quest to Jupiter's Icy Moon

.A SpaceX Falcon Heavy spacecraft bring NASA's Europa Dog clipper space capsule takes off coming from NASA's Kennedy Space Facility in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Dog clipper is actually the first purpose developed to carry out a detailed research of Jupiter's moon Europa to calculate if it presently possesses habitable conditions. The space capsule will take a trip 1.8 billion kilometers (2.9 billion km) to get to Jupiter in April 2030. It will definitely orbit Jupiter and administer 49 near flybys of Europa.Observe Europa Clipper's experience in NASA's Eyes on the Solar System app.Picture credit: SpaceX.

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