NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will travel almost two billion miles to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Europa may have many of the ingredients for life. If the launch is successful in the window opening on October 10th, we may learn a great deal more about the promising environment of Europa. Here’s more from NASA:

Europa is one of the most promising places to look for currently habitable conditions beyond Earth.

There’s scientific evidence that the ingredients for life — water, the right chemistry, and energy — may exist at Europa right now. This mission will gather the information scientists need to find out for sure. The moon may hold an internal ocean with twice the water of Earth’s oceans combined, and it may also host organic compounds and energy sources under its surface. If the mission determines that Europa is habitable, it would mean there may be more habitable worlds in our solar system and beyond than we have imagined.

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