The flyby sets up Europa Clipper for its second gravity assist—a close encounter ... so we leave on a path that will bring us back past Earth." This animation depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper ...

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Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to ... will involve the "gravity assist" maneuver around Mars later this week, and the Earth again next year — a circuitous path that not only saves plenty of ...

But getting Europa Clipper off Earth and en route to its destination ... a March 1 flyby above the surface of Mars for a gravity assist toward Jupiter, during which the team will get to test ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Today (March 1), NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will ... so we leave on a path that will bring us back past Earth." That flyby around Earth is scheduled for December ...

will send Europa Clipper, a satellite orbiter with nine analytical instruments, to Europa to study its environment and assess its habitability. What we see on Earth is that anytime water and hot rock ...

an additional correction maneuver will be performed in order to get the Europa Clipper ready for its second gravity assist, the one involving planet Earth, which is expected to take place next year.

Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows to transmit data back to Earth with less interference.

the Europa Clipper's radar instrument will also be tested to make sure it is operating as expected. The probe's radar antennas are so massive that they could not quite be tested on Earth ...