Space

Europa Dog Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter's Icy Moon

.A SpaceX Falcon Heavy spacecraft carrying NASA's Europa Clipper space probe takes off from NASA's Kennedy Area Facility in Fla on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Dog clipper is the very first mission made to conduct a comprehensive research of Jupiter's moon Europa to identify if it presently possesses habitable shapes. The space probe will definitely journey 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometres) to reach Jupiter in April 2030. It is going to orbit Jupiter and carry out 49 near flybys of Europa.Follow Europa Clipper's journey in NASA's Eyes on the Planetary system application.Photo credit history: SpaceX.