34 results for "Europa Clipper"

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched on October 14, 2024, marking the start of a long-awaited mission to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons believed to harbor a vast subsurface…

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, set to launch on October 14, 2024, aims to explore Jupiter's moon Europa, which may harbor a vast subsurface ocean beneath its icy crust. The mission,…

NASA is preparing to launch the Europa Clipper mission on October 10, 2024, marking the start of a six-year journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The spacecraft, NASA’s largest planetary…

NASA has confirmed that its ambitious Europa Clipper mission is on schedule for an October 10, 2024 launch. This groundbreaking mission aims to explore Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons,...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, a highly anticipated journey to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, has successfully cleared a crucial milestone, keeping it on track for its scheduled launch on October...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, set to launch in October 2024, is encountering significant challenges related to radiation-hardened electronics. Tests have revealed that the transistors designed to withstand Jupiter's intense radiation...

Contrary to science-fiction icon Arthur C. Clarke’s admonition never to attempt a landing on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, NASA announced on Friday that it had selected SpaceX to launch a planned...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured remarkable images of Jupiter’s moon Europa, revealing potential plume activity and intriguing geological features that suggest dynamic processes beneath the icy surface. Europa, one of...

Jupiter’s moon Europa and its global ocean may currently have conditions suitable for life. Scientists are studying processes on the icy surface as they prepare to explore.“The radiation that bombards...

Scientists have long speculated that Juptiter’s moon Europa has an icy crust covering a vast, global ocean –what Caltech’s Mike Brown describes as a “miniature Earth” ocean. The rocky layer...

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science New lab experiments at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have simulated the environment of Jupiter’s storied ocean-moon, Europa, perhaps the most...

With a layered inner structure including a liquid iron core, a thin oxygen-rich atmosphere, an ice-shrouded global ocean with surface plumes that may spew signs of life, and an induced...

Posted on May 1, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science The surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa features a widely varied landscape, including ridges, bands, small rounded domes and disrupted spaces...

Posted on May 14, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Europa’s  ocean of liquid water is buried under an icy surface, shielded from sunlight and NASA’s orbiting eyes, has been described as...

Arthur C. Clarke, author of Space Odyssey 2001, famously warned “attempt no landing” to explore Europa, the most intriguing of Jupiter’s 79 moons, perhaps anticipating the “almost a racing certainty”...

“Something is going on on Enceladus – is active and we want to know,”  said astrophysicist Laura Danly, curator at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. NASA’s Cassini mission to...

“It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him, wrote Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Clarke...

Could there be fossils on the surface of Europa, Jupiter’s storied moon that Arthur C. Clarke harshly warned Sapiens not to attempt a landing on? NASA is building an antenna...

In new NASA research, scientists describe Europa’s global ocean as a “fossil” ocean because the bits of ocean trapped in Europa’s ice shell spend many hundreds of thousands, if not...

“I know, I know,” writes Caltech’s Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy, who specializes in the discovery and study of bodies at the edge of...

Posted on Sep 11, 2017 in Uncategorized   "We chose these two moons because of their potential to exhibit chemical signatures of astrobiological interest," said Heidi Hammel, executive vice president...

The FAA has cleared SpaceX to resume Falcon 9 launches after temporarily grounding the rocket due to an upper stage issue during the Crew-9 mission in September. After reviewing SpaceX’s…

The FAA has grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket following its third anomaly in three months, this time due to a malfunction in the second stage during a deorbit burn after…

The return of NASA's Crew-8 mission from the International Space Station has been postponed due to Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm posing significant risks to splashdown operations. Initially planned…

ESA’s Hera mission, a vital follow-up to NASA’s DART impact test on the asteroid Dimorphos, is nearing its October 7 launch. Hera will study the aftermath of the DART collision,…

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Posted on Mar 9, 2021 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics, Science, Universe Ridley Scott quipped that science fiction isn’t dead, it’s just not fiction anymore. With Scott’s quote in mind, another...

Posted on Apr 1, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Milky Way Galaxy, Science “Plumes of water erupt from Europa and Enceladus, so we can tell that these bodies have subsurface oceans...

Arthur C. Clarke harshly warned his fellow Homo sapiens not to attempt a landing on Jupiter’s ocean moon, Europa. Ignoring his warning, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers are developing BRUIE,...

Posted on Oct 24, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space 1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (image above) that collided with the planet Jupiter were observed by...

Posted on Dec 3, 2018 The water in Saturn’s rings and satellites is like that on Earth except for its bastard moon  Phoebe, “which is out of this world,” was...

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