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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully tested its ice-penetrating radar system during a Mars flyby, confirming its readiness for its main mission to explore Europa for subsurface water and potential habitability, with the radar capturing echoes from Mars' surface and producing valuable data for future exploration.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft tested its radar during a flyby of Mars, using the planet's proximity to calibrate instruments ahead of its 2030 mission to Europa. The successful test involved bouncing radio waves off Mars and collecting data, helping scientists prepare for detailed studies of Europa's icy shell, composition, and structure. The spacecraft, launched in October 2024, aims to explore whether Europa's environment could support life.
NASA's Europa Clipper mission successfully tested its REASON radar instrument during a Mars flyby, demonstrating its capability to probe beneath Europa's icy surface and aiding future exploration of the moon's subsurface ocean, with promising results for the upcoming mission to Jupiter's Europa.
Today's podcast covers the significance of Dovbush Rocks in Ukraine, the work of French street artist 'Invader', recent research indicating lower oxygen levels on Jupiter's moon Europa, and a discussion on word stress in the English language.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, set to launch in October, will carry a commemorative plate featuring a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and over 2.6 million names submitted by the public. The plate, made of tantalum, will honor Earth's connection to Europa and include recordings of the word "water" spoken in 103 languages, as well as the Drake Equation and references to interstellar communication. The spacecraft aims to explore Jupiter's moon Europa to determine if it could support life, with a focus on its subsurface ocean, icy crust, and space environment.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, set to launch in 2024, will carry names of individuals who signed up for the "Message in a Bottle program." The program allows people to send their names to Jupiter's moon Europa, even though there is no one there to receive the message. The names will be engraved on microchips and placed on the spacecraft, which will conduct flybys of Europa to search for evidence of alien habitats and subsurface oceans. The exercise may not have any physical consequences, but it offers a unique opportunity to transcend the boundaries of Earth and contemplate our existence.