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Rachael Davies

NASA performs fly-by on icy Jupiter moon to scout for alien life

NASA is sending Juno to scout for alien life on Europa

(Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute/PA)

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will get close to one of Jupiter’s moons for the first time in more than two decades.

The moon, Europa, is an icy rock, slightly smaller than our own moon. The probe will pass within 222 miles of its surface, roughly the distance between London and Amsterdam as the crow flies.

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