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Spacecraft Europa Clipper traveling to Jupiter's icy moon to look for signs of life
the best evidence of a subsurface ocean was gathered by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Astronomers believe ocean worlds such as Europa are common outside of ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life
Discovered by Galileo in 1610 ... it will cross paths with Europa 49 times. The mission ends in 2034 with a planned crash into Ganymede - Jupiter's biggest moon and the solar system’s too.
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A huge asteroid crash permanently altered Jupiter's biggest moon Ganymede
A colossal asteroid slammed into Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede ... 1,000 years following the asteroid impact. The space ...
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NASA's Juno probe captures amazing views of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io (video)
Such work follows on from that done by NASA's Galileo Jupiter orbiter, which ended its mission with an intentional death dive into Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995. Galileo "did amazing science ...
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On this date: Galileo discovers three major moons of Jupiter
On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei ... became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter. Learn more about NASA’s current mission to Europa here. Multimedia editor Rob Landers ...
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When will NASA launch Europa Clipper? What to know about long-awaited mission to Jupiter's moon
NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016. The Clipper's impending trip to Europa represents the most ambitious attempt to image the moon since the Galileo mission conducted ...
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WATCH: NASA launches Europa Clipper, will scour Jupiter moon for ingredients of life
Discovered by Galileo in 1610 ... it will cross paths with Europa 49 times. The mission ends in 2034 with a planned crash into Ganymede — Jupiter’s biggest moon and the solar system’s ...