Space

Europa Dog Clipper Begins Trip to Jupiter's Icy Moon

.A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lugging NASA's Europa Clipper space probe ascends coming from NASA's Kennedy Space Facility in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Dog clipper is the initial mission created to conduct a detailed research of Jupiter's moon Europa to determine if it presently has habitable states. The space capsule will certainly travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometres) to get to Jupiter in April 2030. It will orbit Jupiter and also carry out 49 near flybys of Europa.Follow Europa Clipper's experience in NASA's Eyes on the Solar System app.Image credit score: SpaceX.