NASA Plans Mission To Investigate Jupiter's Moon Of Europa

By Samantha Wright

Published October 16, 2019 at 2:21 PM MDT

This artist's rendering shows NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is being developed for a launch sometime in the 2020s. This view shows the spacecraft configuration, which could change before launch, as of early 2016.

This segment originally aired February 1, 2019.

Researchers believe the Jupiter moon of Europa could possibly be habitable. The natural satellite has an enormous ocean twenty times deeper than earth's and is covered by a thick, icy shell. JPL's Dr. Samuel Howell joins Idaho Matters to talk about NASA's Clipper Mission to Europa.

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Samantha Wright

As Senior Producer of our live daily talk show Idaho Matters, I’m able to indulge my love of storytelling and share all kinds of information (I was probably a Town Crier in a past life!). My career has allowed me to learn something new everyday and to share that knowledge with all my friends on the radio.

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