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Europa Clipper

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:27:00
Publish Date: 2024-11-05 20:20:44
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image from NASA/JPL-Caltech

Today’s show features NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which launched on October 14th, 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket, setting the spacecraft on its 10-year journey to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa.  Europa Clipper carries nine instruments to study this ocean world covered by an ice shell to determine if there are places in the watery depths below the surface that could support life.  The mission’s goals are to study ice shell, the sub-surface ocean, and the moon’s composition and geology.  Our guest is Dr. Bonnie Buratti, a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Deputy Project Scientist for the Europa Clipper mission.

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