Is There Life on Jupiter's Moon? NASA Sends Probe to Search for Life on Europa
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In March 1979, two NASA space probes, Voyager-1 and Voyager-2, moved along a trajectory near one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, as part of the solar system exploration program. At a distance of 118,000 miles (190,000 km) from the moon's surface, Voyager-2 took a number of high-quality images and conducted measurements that led scientists to hypothesize the existence of a liquid ocean beneath the thick ice shell of the moon.
All subsequent research, including the data collected by the Galileo space probe in the late 1990s while studying Europa at the height of 124 miles (200 km) above the surface, only confirmed the existence of a liquid water ocean beneath the ice, which is between 6-18 miles (10-30 km) thick.
Soon, thanks to the space probes studying Europa, scientists were able to discover something that gave them solid grounds to suggest that life might exist on this moon.
On October 14, 2024, NASA launched the interplanetary mission Europa Clipper. This spacecraft is set to travel to Jupiter’s moon and conduct detailed studies of its surface and sub-surface ocean. This is NASA’s most expensive planetary mission in history, the largest space probe ever designed for studying a planetary body, and the most ambitious mission in the search for extraterrestrial life in human history. What are the chances that we will discover extraterrestrial life? What exactly do scientists plan to find beneath the ice? And why has Europa Clipper become the most expensive project in NASA's history?
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