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@setiinstitute A great total view towards Europa is visible here.#Jupiter's #moon is subject to multiple #scientificinterests. One of them is represented by the NASA #EuropaClipper #Mission that launched in October 14, 2024. The #spaceprobe has different purposes. Besides the superficial ice crust it i.a. collects information about the #subsurface #ocean. Europa is one candidate for possible #extraterrestriallife.
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Reference:
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/

As far as I'm concerned, whether (or not) we find life on Europa is going to be THE most momentous (or disappointing) moment in human history, and nothing else comes anywhere close.

#Europa #EuropaClipper #space #astronomy

Developing Robust Electronics That Can Withstand Harsh Conditions on Cold Planetary Bodies https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-technology/technology-highlights/developing-robust-electronics-that-can-withstand-harsh-conditions-on-cold-planetary-bodies/ #NASA #EuropaClipper #TechnologyHighlights #Uncategorized

3I/ATLAS: Jupiter Bound NASA’s Europa Clipper And Parker Solar Probe Snapped The Exocomet; Here’s What It Found

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/science/103848/3iatlas-jupiter-bound-nasas-europa-clipper-and-parker-solar-probe-snapped-the-exocomet-heres-what-it

NASA eyes 3I/ATLAS with alien-hunting Clipper spacecraft as comet approaches Earth
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=nasa-eyes-3iatlas-with-alien-hunting-clipper-spacecraft-as-comet-approaches-earth
"Unveiling the Mysteries: NASA's Alien-Hunting Clipper Meets Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS"
#space #astronomy #nasa #europaclipper #interstellarcomet

https://www.europesays.com/ie/199199/ Europa Clipper captures an impressive image of Uranus at more than 3.2 billion kilometers #Astronomy #benchmarks #Clipper #Earth #Éire #europa #EuropaClipper #Exoplanets #Galaxy #GraphicsCard #habitable #IE #Image #Ireland #Jupiter #laptop #nasa #netbook #notebook #photo #processor #reports #Review #Reviews #Science #SolarSusyem #SolarSystem #Space #starfield #stargazing #Telescope #test #tests #Uranus

NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield - and the planet Uranus - on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its 2 stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/europa-clipper-captures-uranus-with-star-tracker-camera/

#Europa #EuropaClipper #space #science #news #Uranus #Jupiter #moon #astrodon #stars #starfield #spacecraft

Europa clipper captures Uranus with star tracker camera. Via @sciencex.physorg #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #EuropaClipper

Europa clipper captures Uranus...

A rare glimpse of interstellar material might be provided by NASA's Europa Clipper when it crosses the tail of a comet
https://www.newstainmentora.online/2025/10/a-rare-glimpse-of-interstellar-material.html
#nasa #europaclipper #Space #universe

Kosmiczny łut szczęścia. Sonda NASA może przelecieć przez warkocz komety spoza Układu Słonecznego

Dwie sondy kosmiczne, które obecnie pędzą do zupełnie innych celów w Układzie Słonecznym, mogą wkrótce dokonać historycznego odkrycia.

Jak wynika z obliczeń opublikowanych w Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, zarówno sonda NASA Europa Clipper, jak i misja ESA Hera, mają przeciąć trajektorię warkocza jonowego komety 3I/ATLAS – obiektu, który przybył do nas z przestrzeni międzygwiezdnej.

Byłaby to pierwsza w historii okazja do bezpośredniego zbadania materii pochodzącej z innego systemu planetarnego.

Kometa 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1), odkryta w lipcu 2025 roku, jest dopiero trzecim potwierdzonym obiektem międzygwiezdnym zaobserwowanym w naszym Układzie Słonecznym. W przeciwieństwie do pierwszego gościa, Oumuamua, 3I/ATLAS jest aktywna – obserwacje potwierdziły istnienie rozległej komy i prawdopodobnie warkocza. Podąża ona po hiperbolicznej trajektorii, która szczęśliwie dla naukowców przebiega blisko płaszczyzny ekliptyki, czyli płaszczyzny, w której porusza się większość planet i sond kosmicznych.

Dr Samuel R. Grant z Fińskiego Instytutu Meteorologicznego oraz prof. Geraint H. Jones z University College London, wykorzystując specjalistyczne oprogramowanie „Tailcatcher”, obliczyli, że w najbliższych dniach dojdzie do niezwykłego zbiegu okoliczności. Trajektorie sondy Hera (lecącej do układu planetoidy Didymos) oraz Europa Clipper (wysłanej w kierunku Jowisza w 2024 roku) przetną obszar, w którym powinien znajdować się warkocz jonowy komety 3I/ATLAS. Dla misji Hera okno potencjalnego przejścia przez warkocz wypada między 25 października a 1 listopada 2025 roku, natomiast dla Europa Clipper – między 30 października a 6 listopada 2025 roku.

Co to oznacza w praktyce? Sonda nie zderzy się z jądrem komety, ale ma szansę „zanurzyć się” w strumieniu naładowanych cząstek (jonów), które uciekają z komety i są porywane przez wiatr słoneczny, tworząc jej warkocz. Dokładne położenie i szerokość warkocza zależą od aktywności komety i aktualnych warunków wiatru słonecznego, ale obliczone minimalne „odległości minięcia” osi warkocza wynoszą około 8 milionów kilometrów. Biorąc pod uwagę, że warkocze aktywnych komet mogą być bardzo szerokie, a sama kometa 3I/ATLAS wykazuje dużą aktywność (wysoką produkcję wody jak na swoją odległość od Słońca), prawdopodobieństwo „trafienia” przynajmniej w skraj warkocza jest wysokie .

Największe nadzieje naukowcy wiążą z sondą Europa Clipper, która jest wyposażona w instrumenty do badania plazmy oraz magnetometr. Jeśli instrumenty te zostaną włączone podczas przelotu, mogą po raz pierwszy w historii zarejestrować skład jonów pochodzących z obiektu międzygwiezdnego, a także zbadać, jak pole magnetyczne komety oddziałuje z wiatrem słonecznym. Sonda Hera nie posiada odpowiednich instrumentów do takich pomiarów.

Jest to niezwykła, całkowicie nieplanowana okazja naukowa. Żadna z tych sond nie została wysłana w celu badania 3I/ATLAS. Ich przypadkowe spotkanie z warkoczem komety to kosmiczny bonus, który – jeśli zostanie odpowiednio wykorzystany przez agencje kosmiczne – może dostarczyć bezcennych danych o materii pochodzącej spoza naszego Układu Słonecznego. Jak konkludują autorzy, wraz z rosnącą liczbą odkrywanych obiektów międzygwiezdnych, takie okazje mogą zdarzać się częściej, a przyszłe misje, jak dedykowany Comet Interceptor ESA, będą mogły już celowo polować na podobne spotkania. Zainteresowanych odsyłam do publikacji Amerykańskiego Towarzystwa Astronomicznego.

NASA ogłasza przełom. Łazik Perseverance znalazł na Marsie „potencjalną biosygnaturę”

#astronomia #ESA #EuropaClipper #Hera #kometa3IATLAS #Kosmos #NASA #Nauka #news #obiektMiędzygwiezdny #UkładSłoneczny #warkoczKomety

Jupiter-sonde zou het allereerste monster van een interstellaire komeet kunnen bemachtigen
Astronomen zijn misschien slechts enkele weken verwijderd van een ongekende kans om meer te weten te komen over de interstellaire
#EuropaClipper #InterstellaireKomeet #ionenstaart #jupiter #komeet #nasa #ruimtesonde
https://www.kuuke.nl/jupiter-sonde-zou-het-allereerste-monster-van-een-interstellaire-komeet-kunnen-bemachtigen/

#Hera and Europa Clipper will pass through 3I/ATLAS' tail. Via @sciencex.physorg #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #3IATLAS #EuropaClipper

Hera and Europa Clipper will p...

De Juno-missie is mogelijk beëindigd maar NASA zwijgt erover
De Amerikaanse overheid ging op slot op de dag dat de verlengde missie af zou lopen.
#EuropaClipper #ganymedes #juno #jupiter #nasa #zonnestelsel
https://www.kuuke.nl/de-juno-missie-is-mogelijk-beeindigd-maar-nasa-zwijgt-erover/

Il futuro incerto della sonda Juno: la missione NASA verso la conclusione?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2025/10/juno-nasa-futuro-incerto-shutdown/

NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars

The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at Jupiter’s moon Europa.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-europa-clipper-radar-instrument-proves-itself-at-mars

#EuropaClipper #Mars #space #science #news

NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-radar-instrument-proves-itself-at-mars/ #NASA #EuropaClipper #Europa #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Jupiter #JupiterMoons

Europa Clipper Captures Mars, Phobos, and Deimos, while en route to the Jupiter system to investigate the icy moon Europa.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/SwRI
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26567

#Mars #EuropaClipper

Reaching Europa
18 x 24 inches, Oil, 2015

"The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.”
-Carl Sagan

An allegory of our scientific aspirations to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa. As the video below from NASA explains, Europa holds intriguing possibilites for finding life beyond Earth.
NASA Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9VhCQbPAk

Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com

#europaclipper #spaceart #cosmicperspective

Reaching Europa
18 x 24 inches, Oil, 2015

"The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.”
-Carl Sagan

An allegory of our scientific aspirations to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa. As the video below from NASA explains, Europa holds intriguing possibilites for finding life beyond Earth.
NASA Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9VhCQbPAk

Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com

#europaclipper #spaceart #cosmicperspective

Reaching Europa
18 x 24 inches, Oil, 2015

"The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.”
-Carl Sagan

An allegory of our scientific aspirations to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa. As the video below from NASA explains, Europa holds intriguing possibilites for finding life beyond Earth.
NASA Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9VhCQbPAk

Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com

#europaclipper #spaceart #cosmicperspective

Reaching Europa
18 x 24 inches, Oil, 2015

"The nature of life on earth and the quest for life elsewhere are the two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.”
-Carl Sagan

An allegory of our scientific aspirations to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa. As the video below from NASA explains, Europa holds intriguing possibilites for finding life beyond Earth.
NASA Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9VhCQbPAk

Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com

#europaclipper #spaceart #cosmicperspective

@AkaSci there's a recent lovely presentation & current status by Tracy Drain, mission Chief Engineer, her talk starts at 10:20
https://youtu.be/N3uD1wU3w2A

#EuropaClipper

Stasera, giovedì 29 maggio, dalle 21, ci troviamo al #Museo Malmerendi (Via Medaglie d'Oro 51, #Faenza) per una conferenza dal tema "Giove e le sue lune".

A cura di Paolo Tortora, che ha lavorato per la missione #NASA #EuropaClipper, in viaggio verso #Giove per scoprire se su #Europa può esserci vita.

Ingresso libero e #gratis, non mancare!
https://mobilizon.it/events/d07508bd-44ac-48fb-abb0-adc0aaaf03ea

@astronomia

#astronomia #spazio #scienza #divulgazione #astronautica #spacex #esa #science #space #astronomy #romagna #italia

#EuropaClipper

NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Mars in Infrared

Headed for Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft did some sightseeing, using a flyby of Mars to calibrate its infrared imaging instrument.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-captures-mars-in-infrared/

#Mars #space #science #news #Jupiter #Europa #moon #satellite #STEM #astrodon

NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Mars in Infrared https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-captures-mars-in-infrared/ #NASA #EuropaClipper #Europa #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Mars

Free to read. :-)

"Europa Clipper’s main mission objectives are to study the moon’s ice crust and its surface features, confirm the presence of a subsurface ocean, and determine its chemical composition... In this Q&A we are talking with three scientists (Dr. Christopher Glein, Dr. Elodie Lesage and Dr. Annie Marinan) involved with Clipper, and what particular research questions they hope to answer during the mission."

#EuropaClipper

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-025-59094-6

📆 2025 About 4½ 4️⃣ months after its launch, #NASA’s #EuropaClipper is set to perform a gravity assist maneuver as it flies by #Mars 🔴 https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-clipper-uses-mars-to-go-the-distance

Ah! I have been trying unsuccessfully to spot Europa Clipper in Perseverance's Mastcam-Z images of March 1. Turns out the spacecraft entered the shadow of Mars just before it came into potential view above the horizon from Perseverance’s vantage point, so the sighting did not happen!

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/visiting-mars-on-the-way-to-the-outer-solar-system/
#Mars #Perseverance #EuropaClipper

Did you miss the excellent talk from Sarah Elizabeth McCandless? The free Westport Astronomical Society Lecture series is available on our YouTube channel to watch again or for the first time. Give us a follow and a thumbs up if you like these talks. https://youtube.com/live/0WiP0MYc2n4

#WestportAstronomicalSociety #EuropaClipper #Jupiter #YouTube #Lecture

**TONIGHT at 8:00 PM - WAS Hosts Sarah Elizabeth McCandless: Exploring an Icy World with Europa Clipper – Mar 18, 2025** https://ow.ly/SeCL50VjO6v

One of the most enigmatic moons of the solar system is about to get a visitor to uncover the secrets of this icy/watery world. This is ONLINE ONLY and the classroom will be closed.

#WestportAstronomicalSociety #EuropaClipper #Jupiter

🛰️🌌✍🏼
Late-night acrylic silliness: #ESA #Juice, #NASA #EuropaClipper, #Ingenuity and #Mariner4.

**WAS Hosts JPL's Sarah Elizabeth McCandless: Exploring an Icy World with Europa Clipper – Mar 18, 2025** Having just made a close pass to Mars, the Europa Clipper will have a Jovian arrival in April 2030. Find out why we're going to the the shiny, icy moon full of liquid salt water and what we hope to discover! https://ow.ly/HUu950VbpgV

#EuropaClipper #JPL #Lecture #WestportAstronomicalSociety #Jupiter

NASA's Europa Clipper made a flyby of Mars Saturday on its way to Jupiter. The spacecraft passed 550 miles above the surface at about 15.2 miles per second. The gravity assist tweaked the spacecraft's trajectory, setting up a flyby of Earth in December 2026. We'll talk on March 18th with JPL's Sarah Elizabeth McCandless, the Clipper's Navigation Engineer. https://was-ct.org/events/sarah-mccandless-navigation-engineer-at-jpl-the-europa-clipper/

#EuropaClipper #NASA #WestportAstronomicalSociety

Here is a message from Mars Rover Perseverance as the Europa Clipper successfully completed is Mars flyby and gravity assist maneuver earlier today.

"Hey @EuropaClipper, thanks for swinging by the Red Planet! You were here for a gravity assist; I’m here for rock collecting—teamwork makes the interplanetary dream work as we seek to unlock the secrets of life beyond Earth.

Wish you could've stayed for longer. Safe journeys!"

Mission info at https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/

#Mars #EuropaClipper
3/n

Is There Potential for Life on Europa? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 52 https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/smd/is-there-potential-for-life-on-europa-we-asked-a-nasa-expert-episode-52/ #NASA #ScienceMissionDirectorate #Astrobiology #Europa #EuropaClipper #PlanetaryScience #PlanetaryScienceDivision #TheSolarSystem

📆 2025 preview :

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• #SPHEREx will create a map of the universe 🌌
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• #EuropaClipper at #Mars
• #NASA’s #Lucy #asteroid flyby
• #JUICE at #Venus
https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/space-missions-coming-in-2025

• #SierraSpace #DreamChaser test mission to the #ISS https://www.planetary.org/articles/calendar-of-space-events-2025

NASA Kennedy Top 24 Stories of 2024 https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/nasa-kennedy-top-24-stories-of-2024/ #NASA #KennedySpaceCenter #Artemis #Artemis2 #CommercialCrew #CommercialLunarPayloadServicesCLPS #CommercialResupply #Europa #EuropaClipper #ExplorationGroundSystems #GOESGeostationaryOperationalEnvironmentalSatellite #GOESR

Europa Clipper, op weg naar Jupiter, zet zijn instrumenten aan

Europa Clipper, de grootste ruimtesonde die NASA ooit voor een planetaire missie heeft gebouwd, is inmiddels meer dan 20 miljoen kilometer ver weg.

Een artist impressie van NASA's Europa Clipper toont het ruimtevaartuig in silhouet tegen het oppervlak van Jupiters i

https://www.kuuke.nl/europa-clipper-op-weg-naar-jupiter-zet-zijn-instrumenten-aan/

#europa #EuropaClipper #jupiter #nasa #OndergrondseOceaan #ruimtesonde

Oggi, a #LineaRadioSavona, con GianFunk abbiamo navigato alla volta di #Europa, la luna di #Giove, con #EuropaClipper e le sue ricerche!
Grazie a tutti gli ascoltatori, buon sabato a tutti! 🙏👋🚀

Crediti foto: #SpaceX #NASA

NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024 https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-technologies-named-among-time-inventions-of-2024/ #NASA #General #AmesResearchCenter #DeepSpaceOpticalCommunicationsDSOC #EuropaClipper #GameChangingDevelopmentProgram #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JetPropulsionLaboratory #LangleyResearchCenter #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #ScienceResearch #SmallBusinessInnovationResearchSmallBusiness

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NASA-Mission mit Berner Beteiligung

Am 14. Oktober 2024 startete die NASA-Mission Europa Clipper ihre Reise zum Jupitermond Europa. Ziel ist es, den Eismond auf Hinweise auf ausserirdisches Leben zu untersuchen. Vier Berner Forschende gehören zu den Wissenschaftsteams der Mission.
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https://www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2024/nasa_mission_europa_clipper/index_ger.html

17.10.2024

#Bern #EuropaClipper #Jupiter #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #Schweiz #SpaceFlight #UniBE

NASA’s latest audacious planetary mission, Europa Clipper, has launched and started its five-and-a-half-year journey to the Jovian system. The target of this mission is the small, icy moon Europa, a world that offers a tantalising possibility that it may be habitable.

Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely examines the path that led to the agency’s largest interplanetary spacecraft to date, and how insights from four historical missions built the case for studying this moon in particular.

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/europa-clipper-sailing-new-discoveries-habitability

#SpaceAustralia #EuropaClipper #Astrodon #SpaceExploration #Europa

📸 New Horizons/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Europa Clipper Solar Array Stowage 🌑🪐

#Europa #EuropaClipper #JPL #JetPropulsionLab #JohnsHopkinsUniversityAppliedPhysicsLaboratory(APL) #Jupiter #KSC #KennedySpaceCenter

⏩ 9 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=9&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20241017010409

Liftoff! NASA’s Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/liftoff-nasas-europa-clipper-sails-toward-ocean-moon-of-jupiter/ #NASA #EuropaClipper #Europa #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Jupiter #JupiterMoons #KennedySpaceCenter #LaunchServicesProgram

Il recente lancio della missione Europa Clipper verso l'omonima luna di Giove culmina un lungo processo di selezione e preparazione della missione.

Gianmarco Vespia riassume questo processo spiegando le ragioni della scelta dell'obiettivo, del lanciatore e della traiettoria della missione.

https://www.astronautinews.it/2024/10/lanciata-europa-clipper-alla-ricerca-di-vita-in-un-mondo-dacqua/

#giove #spazio #EuropaClipper

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Europa Clipper solar arrays are fully deployed and work as expected. #EuropaClipper #NASA #Jupiter #Moon #IcyMoons #Europa #Space #science

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⏩ 6 new pictures from NASA (Image Library)

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