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Artistic illustration of an ice-covered river sourced from meltwater beneath Mars’s south polar cap. Peter Buhler / PSI Mars is a frozen desert world, enshrouded in a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide. This atmosphere is so wispy, the pressure is less than 1% that of Earth’s air at sea level — too rarefied to enable […]
Here’s how distant, icy Makemake and its small, dark moon might appear.NASA / ESA / Alex Parker From the surface of distant Pluto, the Sun’s heat is so weak that the landscape features glaciers of solid nitrogen and plains of methane ice. We haven’t ever visited 136472 Makemake, Pluto’s neighbor in the Kuiper Belt, but […]
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter’s moon Europa to determine if it currently has habitable conditions. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles […]
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 […]
A Nasa spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there […]
Watch live! SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch NASA’s Europa Clipper – YouTube Watch On NASA’s first mission to another ocean world in our solar system will launch toward Jupiter on Monday (Oct. 14), but if you want to watch it live, you’ll need to know when to tune in. Europa Clipper, a $5-billion NASA mission […]
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