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NASA's Europa Clipper mission is on its way to find out if the conditions are right for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Follow @NASASolarSystem for updates.
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This story is really beginning to unfold: While zooming through space at 22 miles per second (35 kilometers per second), our spacecraft has deployed its solar arrays, magnetometer boom, and now the antennas for its ice-penetrating radar instrument
ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper134,274 views • 1 year ago

Time flies, and so do we! One month ago, we set out for Jupiter and its ocean moon, Europa. The spacecraft is now 10.2 million miles (16.5 million kilometers) from Earth. Instrument deployments are proceeding well, and the Mars flyby happens in March
ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper124,109 views • 1 year ago

Your package is out for delivery. 📦🚀 Our spacecraft recently traveled from NASA JPL to NASA's Kennedy Space Center ahead of the October launch. But moving a 7,000-pound spacecraft across the country is a whole process. Let our lead engineer walk you through it, step by step.
ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper113,361 views • 2 years ago

A real power move! ⚡️ Here's a look at engineers and technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center deploying the first of two massive solar arrays that will provide electricity for our spacecraft at Jupiter – which is more than five times as far from the Sun as Earth.
ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper86,343 views • 1 year ago

We have questions about Europa: How thick is its ice shell? How deep is its ocean? Is it somewhere life might thrive? To find out, we've assembled a whole suite of science instruments, and now they're loaded aboard our spacecraft ahead of our Oct. launch!
ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper46,263 views • 2 years ago

Our animation of U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa," featuring Limón’s voice, has been named Best Animated Video of 2024 by Ragan Communications. More about the poem and other messages that our spacecraft carries:
ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper26,193 views • 1 year ago
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