NSN Webinar Series: Europa Clipper Updates with Dr. Cynthia Phillips
Channel: NASA Night Sky Network
Date: 2023-07-19

The Night Sky Network welcomed Dr Cynthia Phillips of JPL on July 18, 2023. NASA's Europa Clipper will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life. 

About Europa Clipper: 
Europa Clipper is a NASA mission that will launch in October 2024 to visit Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa. Learn all about Europa and the Europa Clipper mission, as well as how to observe Europa in the night sky and how to sign on to our “Message in a Bottle” to join the mission!

Dr. Cynthia Phillips is a planetary geologist at NASA JPL. Her background is in surface processes on icy satellites, and she is an expert in image processing. She is a project staff scientist on Europa Clipper, as well as the Project Science Communications Lead. Dr. Phillips has an undergraduate degree in astronomy & astrophysics, and physics, from Harvard, and a PhD in Planetary Science with a minor in Geoscience from the University of Arizona.

NASA's Clipper Mission: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper 

Join the Europa Message in a Bottle Campaign and send your name on the Clipper Mission:
https://europa.nasa.gov/participate

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