Europa Clipper's Voyage to Jupiter's Ocean Moon

As NASAs Europa Clipper spacecraft leaves Earth, it carries a message: we, too, are made of water. Europaone of Jupiters moonsis a top candidate to support life, thanks to its ocean of liquid, salty water capped by a layer of ice. Lynnae Quick-Henderson, a planetary scientist at NASA, explains how Clipper will search Europa for the building blocks of life. The mission is also a message in a bottle, bringing a greeting from one ocean world to another. Hear how Ada Limn, the Poet Laureate of the United States, used NASAs mission as inspiration for her poem In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa and why she thinks everyoneeven space nerdsshould step back and appreciate our connections to the universe and each other.. https://www.nasa.gov/podca...
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