Space

Europa Dog Clipper Begins Adventure 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 Area Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Clipper is actually the very first mission made to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's moon Europa to determine if it currently has habitable states. The space probe will certainly take a trip 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometres) to get to Jupiter in April 2030. It will certainly orbit Jupiter and also perform 49 close flybys of Europa.Observe Europa Dog clipper's quest in NASA's Eyes on the Planetary system application.Picture debt: SpaceX.