Space

Europa Dog Clipper Starts Trip to Jupiter's Icy Moon

.A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket bring NASA's Europa Clipper space capsule ascends coming from NASA's Kennedy Area Facility in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Clipper is the initial mission created to perform a detailed research of Jupiter's moon Europa to establish if it currently has habitable conditions. The space capsule will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) to get to Jupiter in April 2030. It will orbit Jupiter and carry out 49 near flybys of Europa.Observe Europa Clipper's adventure in NASA's Eyes on the Planetary system app.Picture credit history: SpaceX.

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