Meet NASAs Europa Clipper Spacecraft
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission. Data from previous NASA missions has provided scientists with strong evidence that an enormous salty ocean lies underneath the frozen surface of Europa. Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter and make nearly 50 flybys of Europa to determine the thickness of the Europa's icy shell and its interactions with the ocean below, to investigate its composition, and to characterize the moon's geology to help scientists better understand the potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet.
Europa Clipper Spacecraft Facts
Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California led the development of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The main spacecraft body was designed by APL in collaboration with NASA JPL and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, executes program management of the Europa Clipper mission. NASA's Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, manages the launch service for the Europa Clipper spacecraft.
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