Space

Europa Dog Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter's Icy Moon

.A SpaceX Falcon Heavy spacecraft lugging NASA's Europa Dog clipper spacecraft ascends from NASA's Kennedy Room Center in Fla on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Clipper is actually the first mission made to perform a comprehensive study of Jupiter's moon Europa to determine if it presently possesses livable states. The space probe will certainly take a trip 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) to arrive at Jupiter in April 2030. It is going to orbit Jupiter and carry out 49 close flybys of Europa.Adhere to Europa Clipper's quest in NASA's Eyes on the Solar System app.Photo credit scores: SpaceX.