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Clipper will orbit Jupiter when it arrives in 2030, conducting 49 flybys of Europa. ASU’s E-THEMIS is one of nine instruments that will collect important data during the mission.
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.
In the oceans of a moon hundreds of millions of miles from the sun, something fishy may be alive—right now. Below its icy crust Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to host a global ocean up to a ...
Life in our solar system could exist, even on the icy recesses of Jupiter and Saturn's moons, according to this Maryland expert. Here's why. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.
One of Jupiter’s 95 known moons, Europa is almost the size of our own moon. It’s encased in an ice sheet estimated to be 10 miles to 15 miles or more (15 kilometers to 24 kilometers) thick.