Europa

Europa Clipper
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter Moons
The Solar System
When it launches in October, the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a richly layered dispatch that includes more than 2.6 million names submitted by the public.
Posted March 8, 2024
Juno
Europa
Jupiter
Jupiter Moons
The ice-covered Jovian moon generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours – enough to keep a million humans breathing for a day. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies. Published on March 4 […]
Posted March 4, 2024
Europa Clipper
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter Moons
The science performed by the complex suite of instruments recently added to the spacecraft will reveal whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has conditions that could support life.
Posted January 30, 2024
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Europa
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter
Jupiter Moons
Rings of Jupiter
The Solar System
The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant’s four largest moons. NASA’s Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the […]
Posted December 27, 2023
Europa Clipper
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Solar System
Six weeks remain for you to add your name to a microchip that will ride aboard the spacecraft as it explores Jupiter’s moon Europa. It’s not every day that members of the public have the chance to send their names into deep space beyond Mars, all the way to Jupiter and its moon Europa. But […]
Posted November 13, 2023
Juno
Europa
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter
Jupiter Moons
Planets
The Solar System
The finding offers deeper insights into the long-debated internal structure of the gas giant. Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Posted November 9, 2023
Europa Clipper
Europa
General
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter Moons
Small Bodies of the Solar System
The Solar System
To explore the mysterious ice-encrusted moon Europa, the mission will need to endure bombardment by radiation and high-energy particles surrounding Jupiter.
Posted October 24, 2023
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