Europa Clipper Science Media Teleconference

Europa Clipper Science Media Teleconference – Live – 14:30

NASA hosts a media teleconference to discuss the scientific objectives of the Europa Clipper mission.

Beyond Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered one of the solar system’s most promising potentially habitable environments. After an approximately 1.8-billion-mile journey, Europa Clipper will enter orbit around Jupiter in April 2030, where the spacecraft will conduct a detailed survey of Europa to determine whether the icy world could have conditions suitable for life.

Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. It carries a suite of nine instruments along with a gravity experiment that will investigate an ocean beneath Europa’s surface, which scientists believe contains twice as much liquid water as Earth’s oceans.

Participants include: • Gina DiBraccio, acting director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters • Robert Pappalardo, project scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL • Haje Korth, deputy project scientist, Europa Clipper, Applied Physics Laboratory • Cynthia Phillips, project staff scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.