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The Woman Who Helped Send a Spacecraft to Jupiter’s Icy Moon
A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life. Louise Prockter and her colleagues ...
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STS-34 Sends Galileo On Its Way To Jupiter
On Oct. 18, 1989, space shuttle Atlantis took off on its fifth flight, STS-34, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in ...
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft Aims for Jupiter’s Most Intriguing Moon
For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today ...
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WATCH: NASA launches Europa Clipper spacecraft to explore Jupiter moon for ingredients for life
Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter, along with Ganymede, Io and Callisto. Seeking conditions that support lifeWhat type of life might ...