The mission, planning for which began in the late 1990s, is expected to conclude around 2034
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“If we were to find the conditions for life, and then someday actually find life in a place like Europa, then that would say in our own solar system there are two examples of life: Earth and Europa.The $5 billion probe is currently at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, sitting in a “clean room” — a sealed area only accessible to people wearing head-to-toe covering.
“We have instruments like cameras, and spectrometers, a magnetometer and a radar that can… penetrate right through ice, bounce off liquid water and back to the surface to tell us how thick is the ice and where is liquid water located,” Pappalardo said. “If moons around planets far away from stars could hold life, then the number of opportunities around the solar system, around the universe, where life could take hold, I think goes up dramatically,” said Jordan Evans, project manager for the Europa Clipper mission.The science is not easy — a powerful radiation field around Europa could degrade the instruments, which will be getting the equivalent of 100,000 chest x-rays every circuit around the moon.
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