Europa Clipper Sails Toward Europa
Bonjour! 👨🏻🚀
NASA’s Europa Clipper 🛰️ just kicked off its epic journey to Jupiter (which, like Mars, still doesn’t have an emoji) to study Europa, one of the 95 moons orbiting the gas giant. It’s set to travel a casual 2.9 billion kilometers, and the trajectory looks… wild.
NASA’s got some big plans for this mission:
Oceans under ice? 🌊 Europa might have them beneath its icy shell ❄️, and where there’s water, there’s a good chance of
fishlife!Radiation alert! 🚨 Jupiter isn't very probe-friendly, bombarding them with intense radiation. But don’t worry—NASA’s got cool countermeasures 🛡️ to protect the Clipper.
Europa Clipper is set to arrive in April 2030. Hopefully by then, we’ll have either hit the Net Zero emission goals (45% reduction by 2030) or we’ll need a beach resort 🏖️ on Europa...
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🎥 Video of the Month
The Insane Engineering of Europa Clipper by Real Engineering