Europa Clipper mission

The Europa Clipper is NASA's spacecraft designed to explore Jupiter's moon Europa, which has a thick ice shell covering an ocean of liquid water. Its main goal is to investigate Europa's ice crust, subsurface ocean, and potential habitability, by taking detailed images and measurements from orbit. The mission aims to determine if Europa could support life and to understand its geological activity. Launched in the mid-2020s, the Clipper will perform multiple close flybys, gathering data that could reveal signs of life and inform future missions focusing on the moon's ocean beneath the ice.