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Europa Clipper launch success on Monday (earthsky.org)

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Europa Clipper is NASA’s mission to explore one of Jupiter’s four large Galilean satellites. Europa has an icy outer crust that covers an ocean world. It holds twice as much water as Earth’s oceans. So, Scientists want to know more about the habitability – the ability for some form of live to exist – on this large moon.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I chanced upon the livestream a minute before launch. It didn't get me quite as choked up as Webb, but it was still good to see.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I actually have a colleague who randomly saw the launch from their airplane. They had no idea and had to look it up after landing. I like all the different ways it can pull people in.