Europa Clipper Mission, A Potentially Habitable Ocean World!

If you’re a Jupiter lover and a stargazer, then you probably observed Europa; one of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, and you probably wondered if humans ever visited this moon, or at least sent a spacecraft! Well, you’re in luck, because soon, a spacecraft will indeed visit Europa! ----- We appreciate NASA is finally dedicating a special mission to discover Jupiter’s icy and cold moon Europa! If you’re not familiar with Europa from stargazing nights, at least you might have seen it in one of NASA’s spectacular photos. Even though no past missions have been especially dedicated to visiting Europa, a few missions did in fact fly past it or observe it up close. These missions are: Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, and the most recent is the Galileo spacecraft that launched back in 1989. In addition to these past missions, NASA constantly monitors Europa using the Hubble Space Telescope that observed evidence for water plumes on the moon back in 2012. But, if we