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In the style of comic art, Europa clipper flies toward Europa, which appears as a quarter circle in close-up in the bottom left. A cutaway of the moon's surface reveals it's icy shell and an ocean beneath. Hydrothermal vents are visible. An altered image of Jupiter looms large in the background.

NASA’s New Edition of Graphic Novel Features Europa Clipper

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NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa Clipper mission.

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NASA’s Perseverance Captures ‘Googly Eye’ During Solar Eclipse

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The tiny, potato-shaped moon Phobos, one of two Martian moons, cast a silhouette as it passed in front of the Sun, creating an eye in Mars’ sky. From its perch on the western wall of Mars’ Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance…

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NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024

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As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine the habitability of a moon of Jupiter, were named…

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope

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On its way up the side of Jezero Crater, the agency’s latest Red Planet off-roader peers all the way back to its landing site and scopes the path ahead.   NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping route…

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Europa Trek: NASA Offers a New Guided Tour of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon

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NASA Science Activation's Solar System Treks collaborated with Astrobiology SciComm Guild SMEs to create enhancements to the Europa Trek portal.

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Could Life Exist Below Mars Ice? NASA Study Proposes Possibilities

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Researchers think meltwater beneath Martian ice could support microbial life. While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet’s surface. Through…

Article3 weeks ago

Liftoff! NASA’s Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter

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NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT Monday aboard a…

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Journey to a Water World: NASA’s Europa Clipper Is Ready to Launch

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Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which is targeting an Oct. 14 liftoff on its mission to search for ingredients of life at Jupiter’s moon Europa. In less than 24 hours, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is slated…

Article3 weeks ago

Can Life Exist on an Icy Moon? NASA’s Europa Clipper Aims to Find Out

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With a spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there are ingredients suitable for life in the ocean below Europa’s icy crust. Deep down, in an ocean beneath its ice shell, Jupiter’s moon Europa…

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Artist concept image of an early wet Mars.

NASA: New Insights into How Mars Became Uninhabitable

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NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life – with evidence for widespread liquid water on the surface – to a surface that…

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