In October, NASA's scheduled to launch a spacecraft to one of Jupiter's 92 known moons, an icy marble named Europa. The probe's main purpose? To help scientists figure out if Europa can support life as we know it.
This robotic explorer is aptly called the Europa Clipper, and, according to a release put out by the agency on Tuesday (Jan. 30), Clipper's looking pretty ready for its cosmic journey. In short, all of its nine science instruments and a telecommunication system have been installed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California — in addition to my name (literally). But, that's a whole other story.
