Space

Europa Clipper Starts Trip to Jupiter's Icy Moon

.A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lugging NASA's Europa Dog clipper space probe lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Facility in Fla on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024.Europa Clipper is the 1st goal designed to conduct a detailed research study of Jupiter's moon Europa to figure out if it presently has habitable shapes. The space probe will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometres) to get to Jupiter in April 2030. It will orbit Jupiter as well as administer 49 close flybys of Europa.Follow Europa Dog clipper's quest in NASA's Eyes on the Solar System app.Photo credit report: SpaceX.