Europa Clipper to blast off on mission to find out if Jupiter moon may hold life
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#6RES1)
$5bn Nasa mission will assess whether ice-covered moon that is thought to have twice Earth's water is habitable
Nasa is poised to send a spacecraft to a frosty moon of Jupiter where extraterrestrial life may eke out an existence in an enormous ocean hidden beneath its ice-covered surface.
The Europa Clipper mission is due to blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12.06pm local time on Monday after the original plan to launch on Thursday was scrapped due to the battering winds brought by Hurricane Milton.
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