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Europa Clipper: Nasa’s ocean world mission gets launch date – Yahoo News Australia
A mission to study a moon that could be home to extra-terrestrial life has been given a launch date.
A mission to study a moon of Jupiter that could be home to extra-terrestrial life has been given a launch date.
Nasa is sending a spacecraft to the icy world of Europa, which holds an ocean under its frozen outer shell.
Scientists have long regarded the moon as one of the most promising targets in the search for life elsewhere in our Solar System.
The Europa Clipper spacecraft will now launch to the jovian moon in October 2024, arriving in April 2030.
The spacecraft was to have launched on Nasa’s…
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