Episode 550: Exploring The Icy Moons of Jupiter. NASA's Europa Clipper and ESA's JUICE
Mars is the place that most of our spacecraft, landers and rovers are studying, searching for any evidence that life ever existed somewhere else in the Solar System.
\n\nBut talk to planetary scientists, and they\u2019re just as excited about the ocean worlds of the Solar System; the moons, asteroids, dwarf planets and Kuiper Belt objects where there could be vast oceans of liquid water under thick shells of ice.
\n\nThe perfect environment for life to thrive.
\n\nWe\u2019ve only had tantalizing hints that these oceans are there, but NASA is building a spacecraft that will study one of these worlds in detail: the Europa Clipper. And they\u2019re not the only ones. The European Space Agency is building their own mission, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.
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References:
\nhttps://europa.nasa.gov/about-europa/ocean/
\nhttps://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/galileo/overview/
\nhttps://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6772
\nhttps://europa.nasa.gov/about-clipper/instruments/
\nhttps://spacenews.com/europa-or-enceladus-if-nasa-switches-from-sls-to-falcon-heavy-it-wont-have-to-choose/
\nhttps://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7122
\nhttps://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP00/20190522/109552/HMKP-116-AP00-20190522-SD002.pdf
\nhttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/without-champion-europa-lander-falls-nasa-s-back-burner
\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/11/10/18075556/jupiter-moon-europa-lander-nasa-john-culberson-midterms-life
\nhttps://newatlas.com/europa-giant-ice-spikes/56704/
\nhttp://sci.esa.int/juice/49837-juice-assessment-study-report-yellow-book/#
\nhttp://sci.esa.int/juice/50068-science-objectives/
\nhttps://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/ganymede/in-depth/
\nhttp://sci.esa.int/juice/61415-arianespace-and-esa-announce-jupiter-icy-moons-explorer-launch-contract/