In Depth | Europa Clipper – NASA Solar System Exploration

Built in 1961, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the cradle of robotic space exploration.

Space History Is Made in This NASA Robot Factory

A research team led out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has detected water vapor for the first time above Europa’s surface.

NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa

Zibi Turtle plays a key role in two bold missions to explore two of the most scientifically fascinating moons of our solar system: Titan and Europa.

Zibi Turtle: Titan of Exploration

Europa Clipper will explore Jupiter's icy moon in-depth during multiple flybys, studying whether Europa could harbor conditions suitable for life.

Europa Clipper's Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moon Confirmed

Robots can drive on the plains and craters of Mars, but what if we could explore cliffs, polar caps and other hard-to-reach places on the Red Planet and beyond?

For Climbing Robots, the Sky's the Limit

Scientists have discovered that the yellow color seen on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is actually sodium chloride, a compound known on Earth as table salt.

Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa

Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and where else in the cosmos we might find it.

NASA Study Reproduces Origins of Life on Ocean Floor

Scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information. This suggests there could be a genetic system for life that may be possible on other worlds.

NASA-Funded Research Creates DNA-like Molecule to Aid Search for Alien Life

From deep below the soil at Earth’s polar regions to Pluto’s frozen heart, ice exists all over the solar system...and beyond.

Frozen: Ice on Earth and Well Beyond

Quite a few candles have been lit since NASA was born on Oct. 1, 1958. Here’s a quick look back at some highlights from six decades of exploration—and a glimpse of what’s ahead.

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Simulating alien worlds, designing spacecraft with origami and using tiny fossils to understand the lives of ancient organisms are all in a day’s work for NASA interns.

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New comprehensive mapping of the radiation pummeling Jupiter’s icy moon Europa reveals where scientists should look -- and how deep they’ll have to go -- when searching for signs of habitability and biosignatures.

Radiation Maps of Europa: Key to Future Missions

NASA and its partners are blending ocean and space exploration, with a project called SUBSEA, short for Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog. Lessons learned in both fields will be mutually beneficial and could help design future science-focused missions across the solar system.

NASA Dives Deep into the Search for Life

NASA will host a Science Chat May 14 about the latest analysis of Jupiter’s moon Europa and its status as a promising place in the solar system to search for life.

NASA Hosts Live Discussion about Europa Findings, Potential for Life

This year, NASA will launch two satellite missions that will increase our understanding of Earth’s frozen reaches. This week’s #10Things is all about ice.

10 Things: All About Ice

A century after the birth of Arthur C. Clarke, we look at 10 aspects of real-life space travel that he predicted, popularized or influenced.

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It's never too late to appreciate the far-reaching influence the Voyagers have had—including pop culture.

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Europa's Ocean

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Galileo sparked the birth of modern astronomy with his observations of the Moon, phases of Venus, moons around Jupiter, sunspots, and the news that seemingly countless individual stars make up the Milky Way Galaxy.

Galileo's Observations of the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and the Sun

Europa, Jupiter's smallest moon, might not only sustain but foster life according to the research of a University of Arizona professor.

Europan Tides Might Foster Life, Says UA Member of Galileo Imaging Team

The red tinge of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, could be caused by frozen bits of bacteria.

What Makes Europa Pink?

San Andreas-like faults in the crust of Jupiter's icy moon Europa provide evidence that the crust, floating on a liquid water ocean, has slipped over the globe, so that the poles recently have wandered hundreds of miles, a University of Arizona undergraduate student reported today.

UA Student Discovers Evidence for 'Wandering' Poles, Convergence Zones on Jupiter's Moon Europa

Impact craters on Europa - the jovian satellite that scientists say may hide a subsurface liquid ocean - show that the moon's brittle ice shell crust is more than 3 to 4 kilometers (1.8 to 2.4 miles) thick, two University of Arizona planetary scientists report in Science (Nov. 9 issue).

Europa's Ice Crust Is Deeper Than 3 Kilometers, UA Scientists Find

Things are crackling on the giant Jovian moon, Europa, and a group of earth-bound ocean scientists funded by the Office of Naval Research are intrigued... could Jupiter's Europa be hiding an ocean of water under that icy surface?

Listening for an Ocean on Europa

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Goals	Europa Clipper will search for signs of potential habitability on Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa.
Proposed Launch	TBD (2020s)
Science Target	Europa
Type	Orbiter
Agency	NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mission Website	https://europa.nasa.gov

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