Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter’s Ocean World - Livestream

Jupiter's moon Europa may be a habitable world, containing the “ingredients” necessary for life within its ocean. Data from NASA’s earlier Galileo mission suggest that a global salty ocean exists beneath the icy surface. Tides have broken that floating ice shell to create ridges, bands, and chaotic terrains that may be related to local melting. The Europa Clipper mission will explore Europa with a remarkably capable suite of instruments, through multiple close flybys from Jupiter orbit. The spacecraft will examine the moon’s ice shell, ocean, and geology, and search for current activity - including plumes that emerge from surface cracks. This talk will summarize our understanding of Europa and the and status and promise of the Europa Clipper mission.

Dr. Robert Pappalardo is the Project Scientist for NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the Caltech.

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