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Europa Clipper launch success on Monday (earthsky.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

6 years to get there, it will be a hard wait.

I'm very excited for this one, it's a shame we don't have more missions like this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Hopefully that changes fast om the next 6 years...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

  1. I love it when real, groundbreaking space-science gets on its way without a hitch.

  2. The artists' conception of Europa looks like it was copied from a cross section diagram of skin, complete with acne getting ready to erupt.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In a period of such extraordinary political bullshit and bad faith garbage, it’s really nice to see that NASA is puttering along just fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Hilarious πŸ˜‚ take on the cross section

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

6 years from now:

We've found life on Europa!

-holy shit! Like little green men or something?

No. No. Nothing like that.

-plant life? I can't wait until they clone that so I can smoke it!

No. No. Not plants either. You see, it's just covered in zits, giant living zits. That's it. It's the only form of life there.

-gross

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know we don't want to get too Science Fiction-y. I can't help but think about the movie The Europa Report, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've never seen it, but will put it on the list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The peanuts are on me!

(rains legumes upon giddy scientists)