A $5 billion NASA spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter to study if one of its moons is potentially habitable. A Falcon Heavy lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 12:06 p.m. Eastern Monday, carrying NASA's Europa Clipper. Europa Clipper will perform flybys of Mars and Earth before arriving at Jupiter in April 2030. It will make dozens of close flybys of Europa, an icy moon with a subsurface ocean, to see if it has the conditions to support life. Here's a gifted NY Times article that is really interesting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/science/nasa-europa-clipper-jupiter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU4.S8Ys.f0jkQrxVp0gM&smid=url-share

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