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NASA’s Europa Clipper Soars: Embarking on a Daring Search for Life on Jupiter’s Icy Moon

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NASA's Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft ever built for an interplanetary mission, has launched from Kennedy Space Center on a mission to explore Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Europa Clipper will travel 1.8 billion miles using gravity assists. After arrival at Jupiter in 2030, it will investiga

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  1. NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life

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    NASA’s Europa Clipper Soars: Embarking on a Daring Search for Life on Jupiter’s Icy Moon

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  1. NBC Los Angeles

    NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life (opens NBC Los Angeles)

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    NBC Los Angeles's feed description

    A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

  2. Washington Times

    NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft set to scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life (opens Washington Times)

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    A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

  3. Phys

    Europa Clipper mission to investigate potential habitability of Jupiter (opens Phys)

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    A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

  4. WSVN Miami

    NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports (opens WSVN Miami)

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    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond

  5. Fox News

    NASA spacecraft to scour Jupiter's icy moon in search of life-supporting conditions (opens Fox News)

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    A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.

  6. The Oregonian

    NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour a Jupiter moon to see if it could have supported life (opens The Oregonian)

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    The Oregonian's feed description

    A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust and determine whether conditions there could support life.

  7. The Republic

    NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter's moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life (opens The Republic)

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    The Republic's feed description

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life. It will take Europa Clipper 5 1/2 years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant ga…

  8. The Guardian

    Nasa’s Europa Clipper sets sail for Jupiter’s icy moon to study habitability (opens The Guardian)

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    Craft lifts off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy with plans to peer under Europa’s crust where ocean may be near surface

  9. New York Post

    NASA rocket begins 5-year journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa to find right conditions for human life (opens New York Post)

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    A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.

  10. CNET

    NASA and SpaceX's Jupiter Moon Mission Europa Clipper Sails Off On Six-Year Mission (opens CNET)

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    The spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Jupiter in April 2030.

  11. Forbes

    NASA Launches Europa Clipper Toward Jupiter’s Moon—Here’s What To Know (opens Forbes)

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    The space agency believes Jupiter’s moon is one of the “most promising places” to find habitable environments in the solar system.

  12. Scientific American

  13. Universe Today

    Europa Clipper Begins Odyssey to Assess Jovian Moon's Habitability (opens Universe Today)

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    NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to Europa, a Jovian moon that's thought to harbor a hidden ocean — and perhaps life.

  14. CBS News

    NASA launches probe toward Jupiter and its icy moon Europa to assess habitability (opens CBS News)

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    The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment.

  15. NBC Los Angeles

    NASA launches a spacecraft to find out if one of Jupiter's moons could support life (opens NBC Los Angeles)

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    NASA's Europa Clipper probe will study Jupiter's moon Europa, which is thought to have an underground ocean and a potentially habitable environment.

  16. BGR

    Watch NASA's historic Europa Clipper launch right here (opens BGR)

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    BGR's feed description

    Watch the launch of the Europa Clipper mission live today. Here's everything you need to know to catch the start of this exciting mission.

  17. The Conversation US

    Jupiter’s moons hide giant subsurface oceans − Europa Clipper is one of 2 missions on their way to see if these moons could support life (opens The Conversation US)

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    Europa Clipper and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer missions will arrive at Jupiter in the 2030s and provide researchers with unprecedented access to the moons orbiting the gas giant.

  18. Phys

  19. The Guardian

    Europa Clipper to blast off on mission to find out if Jupiter moon may hold life (opens The Guardian)

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    $5bn Nasa mission will assess whether ice-covered moon that is thought to have twice Earth’s water is habitable

  20. West Hawaii Today

    NASA spacecraft to study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa can harbor life (opens West Hawaii Today)

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    WASHINGTON — NASA is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa, considered one of our solar system’s most promising spots to search for life beyond Earth, to learn whether this ice-encased world believed to harbor a vast underground ocean is habitable.

  21. UPI

    NASA launches Europa Clipper mission to reach Jupiter moon by 2030 (opens UPI)

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    NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center on top of a SpaceX Super Heavy rocket Monday morning, beginning a six-year trek to Jupiter's icy moon.

  22. Nature

    Is there life on Jupiter’s moon Europa? NASA launches mission to find hints (opens Nature)

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    Nature's feed description

    The Europa Clipper spacecraft will use its various instruments to probe whether the icy ocean world is habitable.

  23. NPR

    NASA spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter's Europa moon (opens NPR)

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    NPR's feed description

    Europa Clipper will make a six-year journey to Jupiter to study Europa, an icy-surfaced moon that scientists believe has “ingredients for life.”

  24. Honolulu Star-Advertiser

    NASA launches mission to explore life potential on Europa | Honolulu Star-Advertiser (opens Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

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    Honolulu Star-Advertiser's feed description

    NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida today on a mission to examine whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed to be lurking beneath its thick outer shell of ice.

  25. Voice of America

    NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter's moon Europa, searching for keys to life (opens Voice of America)

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    Voice of America's feed description

    It will take Europa Clipper 5 1/2 years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around giant gas planet and sneak close to Europa during dozens of radiation-drenched flybys

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