NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in the ocean that lurks beneath the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa?
“This is a mission we’ve been dreaming of for 25 years now, since I was in graduate school,” says planetary geologist Cynthia Phillips of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “It’s a generational mission.”
An October 10 launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been scrubbed due to Hurricane Milton, but the spacecraft is still expected to launch later this month or in early November.
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