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Jeff Spry

4 must-see Jupiter movies to help you prepare for NASA's Europa Clipper mission

NASA Europa Io Channing Tatum Mila Kunis Sean Connery Earth
A futuristic man and woman with a spaceship and the planet Jupiter in the background.

With the clock ticking down to the historic launch of NASA's Europa Clipper mission to survey the mysterious frozen moon of Jupiter, a 1.8-billion-mile voyage that will take five-and-a-half years to complete, now is the perfect time to immerse our minds with visions of that life-promising satellite and its famous gas giant homeworld.

NASA is currently looking at a blastoff no earlier than 12:06 p.m. EDT, Monday, Oct. 14, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With its silicate rock composition encased in a water-ice crust, Europa is the sixth largest moon in our solar system and it's been long speculated that its salt-water oceans underneath the barren frozen surface could potentially harbor some form of life. You can watch the Europa Clipper launch live online, and check out our Europa Clipper live updates for the latest on the mission.

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