{"id":114223,"date":"2024-10-15T00:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114223"},"modified":"2024-10-15T00:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:56:45","slug":"nasa-and-spacex-launch-europa-clipper-to-a-jupiter-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114223","title":{"rendered":"NASA and SpaceX Launch Europa Clipper to a Jupiter Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Europa Clipper, the biggest interplanetary spacecraft that NASA has ever built, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The mission will tackle one of biology\u2019s core questions: Can life exist anywhere else in our solar system?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The spacecraft\u2019s destination is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/17\/science\/nasa-europa-clipper-radiation.html\" title=\"\">Europa, a moon of Jupiter<\/a>, where water sloshes beneath a shell of ice that could be more than 10 miles thick. Such ocean worlds are fairly common in the outer solar system. That has created speculation: Could there be life swimming in any of those oceans?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For now, the answer is an intriguing maybe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The $5.2 billion Europa Clipper mission is the first by NASA devoted to filling in the blanks to the question of habitability on these ocean worlds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think Europa is certainly the most likely place for life beyond Earth in our solar system,\u201d said Robert Pappalardo, the project scientist for Europa Clipper. \u201cAnd that\u2019s because it is the most likely to have the ingredients for life in abundance and for there to be enough time for life to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At liftoff, Europa Clipper weighed about 12,500 pounds, nearly half of which was propellant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/14\/science\/nasa-europa-clipper-jupiter.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europa Clipper, the biggest interplanetary spacecraft that NASA has ever built, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Monday afternoon. 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