Space

Europa Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter's Icy Moon

.A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket bring NASA's Europa Clipper space capsule ascends coming from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Fla on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Clipper is the very first mission designed to administer a thorough research study of Jupiter's moon Europa to find out if it presently has livable states. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) to get to Jupiter in April 2030. It will certainly orbit Jupiter as well as administer 49 close flybys of Europa.Follow Europa Clipper's journey in NASA's Eyes on the Solar System application.Image credit: SpaceX.