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Only two days after Hurricane Milton, by then a Category 1 storm, passed just seven miles away from Cape Canaveral, Europa Clipper lifted off into cloudless blue skies aboard a Falcon Heavy Expendable rocket. Europa Clipper will be “unveiling the mysteries of an enormous ocean lurking beneath Jupiter’s moon Europa.” Europa Clipper lifts off from […]
Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary mission will launch today to determine whether Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has an environment that could support life. The Europa Clipper mission is expected to launch at 12:06 pm local time aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket […]
The solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede, alongside Jupiter in a picture taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft NASA/JPL/University of Arizona A massive collision billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Naoyuki Hirata at Kobe University, Japan, and his colleagues studied Ganymede’s extensive furrow system, a series of concentric troughs believed to […]