the Guardian $5bn Nasa mission will assess whether ice-covered moon that is thought to have twice Earth’s water is habitable
By Ian Sample
Nasa is poised to send a spacecraft to a frosty moon of Jupiter where extraterrestrial life may eke out an existence in an enormous ocean hidden beneath its ice-covered surface.
The Europa Clipper mission is due to blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12.06pm local time on Monday after the original plan to launch on Thursday was scrapped due to the battering winds brought by Hurricane Milton.
Barring any further snags, the six-ton spacecraft – the largest Nasa has ever built for a planetary mission – will fly past Mars and swing back around Earth before slingshotting out to Jupiter, covering nearly 2bn miles before reaching its destination in 2030.
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