NASA's Europa Clipper mission is on track for an October launch following tests confirming the spacecraft can handle the harsh radiation environment around one of Jupiter's most intriguing moons.
The Europa Clipper spacecraft aims to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which is believed to harbor a subsurface ocean with twice as much as water as in all of Earth's seas combined. Equipped with nine instruments, including cameras, ground-penetrating radar, and spectrometers, the spacecraft will conduct multiple close flybys of the moon and investigate the environment beneath Europa's icy crust and search for signs of life as we know it.
