What lies beneath the ice on Europa? NASA is betting big on the chance there may be the right conditions for life. So big, indeed, it is sending the largest spaceprobe of its kind to the Jovian moon sometime in 2024. Unfortunately, we will need to wait until the nextdecade for any data (takes a while to get to the Jupiter system...), but in the meantime, we can watch the magic unfold as engineers build the Europa Clipper and make it ready for science.
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