Europa Clipper art superimposed on photo of Mars

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Europa Clipper Successfully Passed By Mars En Route to Jupiter

NASA’s Jupiter-bound Europa Clipper flew past Mars today, using the planet’s gravity to slow its speed around the Sun

Europa Clipper

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Europa Clipper Readies for Launch to Jupiter's Icy — and Maybe Habitable — Moon

NASA's spacecraft to Jupiter's icy moon Europa will explore the little world's potential habitability.

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Future Planetary Probes Can Learn from Cassini

An unusual water composition at Saturn’s moon Phoebe means that future spacecraft will have to be on the lookout for different water ratios than we are used to on Earth.

water plume on Europa

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Source for Europa Geysers Missing

A new look at old data suggests there’s something missing from suspected plumes on Europa: a heat source.

Jupiter, Europa, and Galileo

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NASA's Galileo Measures Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa

A new analysis of decades-old data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which reached the Jupiter system in 1995, shows the best evidence yet for plumes from the icy moon Europa.