Space

Europa Clipper Starts Adventure to Jupiter's Icy Moon

.A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Dog clipper spacecraft takes off from NASA's Kennedy Area Facility in Fla on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Dog clipper is the 1st goal created to perform a thorough research of Jupiter's moon Europa to calculate if it presently possesses habitable states. The spacecraft will certainly travel 1.8 billion kilometers (2.9 billion km) to reach Jupiter in April 2030. It will certainly orbit Jupiter and also carry out 49 close flybys of Europa.Comply with Europa Dog clipper's adventure in NASA's Eyes on the Planetary system application.Image debt: SpaceX.