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A Voice Among the Stars: Poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón Will Ride to Europa on NASA Spacecraft – NASA's Europa Clipper
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U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is seen standing in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Space Flight Operations Facility, commonly called “mission control”. The Space Flight Operations Center, a National Historic Landmark, has been operational and staffed every day since 1964. Here engineers send and receive commands for spacecraft in, and beyond, our solar system. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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These instruments will study Europa’s icy shell, the ocean beneath, and the composition of the gases in the moon’s atmosphere and surface geology, and provide insights into the moon’s potential habitability. The spacecraft also will carry a thermal instrument to pinpoint locations of warmer ice and any possible eruptions of water vapor. Strong evidence shows the ocean beneath Europa’s crust is twice the volume of all the Earth’s oceans combined.The Europa Clipper mission demonstrates NASA’s commitment to exploring our solar system and searching for habitability beyond Earth. The data will contribute to our understanding of the Jovian system and will help pave the way for potential future missions to study Europa and other potentially habitable worlds.Europa Clipper is expected to reach the Jupiter system in April 2030, and it will accomplish a few milestones along the way, including a Mars flyby in February 2025 that will help propel the spacecraft toward Jupiter’s moon through a Mars-Earth gravity assist trajectory.“After two years of painstaking work on the spacecraft here at JPL, with the help of our partners, it was bittersweet to see the spacecraft encased in its shipping container and on its way to Florida,” said Jordan Evans, Europa Clipper project manager at JPL. “But we already have Europa Clipper engineers and technicians at Kennedy who are welcoming this precious cargo and are set to accomplish the final assembly and testing so that we’re ready for launch.”NASA and SpaceX are targeting launch aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy later this year. The launch period opens on Oct. 10. After testing and final preparations are complete, the spacecraft will be encapsulated in a protective payload fairing and moved to the SpaceX hangar at the launch complex.Need Some Space? 
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NASA's Europa Probe Gets a Hotline to Earth

The addition of a high-gain antenna will enable the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft – set to launch in October 2024 – to communicate with mission controllers hundreds of millions of miles away.

Engineers and technicians install a 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft on Aug. 14, 2023. The orbiter is being assembled in the clean room of the High Bay 1 clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in preparation for launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa in October 2024. The precision-engineered dish was attached to the spacecraft in carefully choreographed stages over the course of several hours. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Europa Clipper is designed to seek out conditions suitable for life on an ice-covered moon of Jupiter. On Aug. 14, the spacecraft received a piece of hardware central to that quest: the massive dish-shaped high-gain antenna.
Stretching 10 feet (3 meters) across the spacecraft’s body, the high-gain antenna is the largest and most prominent of a suite of antennas on Europa Clipper. The spacecraft will need it as it investigates the ice-cloaked moon that it’s named after, Europa, some 444 million miles (715 million kilometers) from Earth. A major mission goal is to learn more about the moon’s subsurface ocean, which might harbor a habitable environment.

Engineers and technicians install Europa Clipper’s high-gain antenna in the main clean room at JPL. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Once the spacecraft reaches Jupiter, the antenna’s radio beam will be narrowly directed toward Earth. Creating that narrow, concentrated beam is what high-gain antennas are all about. The name refers to the antenna’s ability to focus power, allowing the spacecraft to transmit high-powered signals back to NASA’s Deep Space Network on Earth.
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It will study the chemistry of the moon’s suspected subsurface ocean, how ocean and surface exchange material, and how radiation alters compounds on the moon’s surface.
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Tiny meteorites eject bits of Europa’s surface into space, and a subsurface ocean or reservoirs might vent material into space as plumes. The dust analyzer will identify that material’s chemistry and area of origin, and offer clues to Europa’s ocean salinity.
 
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Engineers, machinists, and scientists are now building and testing Europa Clipper’s science instruments and other hardware. The spacecraft is currently coming together. The team is refining the spacecraft's flight path to Jupiter and its “tour” of orbits around the planet, in which it will make dozens of Europa flybys.
Whatever Europa Clipper reveals could change our understanding of the solar system, and other planetary systems, forever. "This is a giant step in our search for oases that could support life in our own celestial backyard," said Curt Niebur, Europa program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We're confident that this versatile set of science instruments would produce exciting discoveries on a much-anticipated mission."

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There’s a lot of excitement surrounding NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which will launch in October 2024. The Europa Clipper mission has an important goal: to determine whether Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has the conditions suitable for life.
Asking big questions is a part of the human experience. This opportunity celebrates the similarities between art and science. Both poetry and planetary science ask big questions about the universe, and our place within it.

Will my name fly on the Europa Clipper spacecraft?

Yes, all submitted names are reviewed, and approved names are etched onto microchips. The microchips will be mounted on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will orbit Jupiter and make multiple flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

When does this opportunity close?	

This opportunity will close in December 2023. After the opportunity closes, participants’ names will be etched onto microchips, and those microchips will be mounted on the Europa Clipper spacecraft.

Why is this opportunity called Message in a Bottle?

The notion of placing a message into a sealed bottle and setting it adrift on the sea is familiar across the world. After its launch in October 2024, the Europa Clipper spacecraft will travel for over six years to reach the Jupiter system. As it voyages from one water world to another, across a vast ocean of space, the Message in a Bottle symbolically carries the hopes and aspirations of all of us on Earth. It's a message about seeking connection and understanding in mysteries large and small.

What does submitting my name do?	

All submitted names are reviewed, and approved names are etched onto microchips. The microchips will be mounted on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will orbit Jupiter and make multiple flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

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La NASA ha lanzado un nuevo sitio web en español para invitar al público a enviar sus nombres a bordo de Europa Clipper, una misión que iniciará su viaje a la luna de Júpiter Europa en octubre de 2024.

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El sitio web en español también permite a los participantes crear y descargar un recuerdo personalizable (una ilustración de cada nombre en un mensaje en una botella, con texto en este idioma y con una imagen de fondo de Europa y Júpiter) para conmemorar la experiencia. Se anima a los participantes a compartir su entusiasmo en las redes sociales utilizando el hashtag #SendYourName (envía tu nombre).
Europa Clipper está siendo ensamblada, en el Laboratorio de Propulsión a Chorro (JPL, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA. La aeronave, que se lanzará desde Cabo Cañaveral (Florida), recorrerá 2.600 millones de kilómetros (1.8000 millones de millas) para llegar al sistema de Júpiter, que alcanzará en 2030. Mientras orbite Júpiter y sobrevuele Europa unas 50 veces, recorrerá otros 800.000 kilómetros mientras sus instrumentos científicos recopilarán datos sobre el océano subterráneo, la corteza de hielo y la atmósfera de la luna.
En enero, Limón visitó JPL para observar la nave espacial y aprender más sobre la misión. Limón fue nombrada la vigésimocuarta Poetisa Laureada Asesora en Poesía por la bibliotecaria del congreso Carla Hayden en 2022, y reelegida para un segundo mandato de dos años en abril de 2023. Limón nació en Sonoma, California, y es de ascendencia mexicana.
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Icy Moonquakes: Surface Shaking Could Trigger Landslides – NASA's Europa Clipper
“We hope to gain a better understanding of the geological processes that have shaped icy moons over time and to what extent their surfaces may still be active today,” Pappalardo said.
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Europa Clipper’s main science goal is to determine whether there are places below the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, that could support life. The mission’s three main science objectives are to understand the nature of the ice shell and the ocean beneath it, along with their composition and geology. The mission’s detailed exploration of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet.
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This enhanced color image from NASa's Galileo mission shows the region surrounding the young impact crater Pwyll on Jupiter's moon Europa.

Pwyll Crater

This artist's rendering shows NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is aiming for launch readiness by 2024.

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This animation segment shows NASA’s Europa Clipper flying by Mars during its Mars gravity assist. 

Mission Animation: Mars Gravity Assist

Europa Clipper’s surface dust analyzer instrument was delivered to JPL in September 2022. 

Europa Clipper's Dust Analyzer Delivered to JPL 

Flight housing for the Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS) instrument in early summer 2020, as it was about to begin assembly and testing.

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The Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM) sensor. At left is the interior of the sensor that will measure Europa’s magnetic field, along with the sensor’s pigtail harness. 

Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM) Sensor

Ridges disrupted by the localized formation of domes may be indicative of thermal upwelling of water from beneath Europa's crust.

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This true-color simulated view of Jupiter is composed of 4 images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 7, 2000. 

High Resolution Globe of Jupiter 

In a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers discuss testing for Europa Clipper’s star tracker.

Star Tracker Testing

A city-sized impact crater viewed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft may shed new light on the nature of the enigmatic icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Europa Impact Crater 

The Propulsion Module Development Test Model lower cylinder section undergoes a static load test in a cleanroom at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. 

Propulsion Module Development Test Model

This infrared image of Europa, showing heat radiation from its surface at a wavelength of 27 microns (millionths of a meter), provides the best view yet of Europa's daytime temperatures. 

Daytime Temperatures on Europa 

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