
Europa Clipper Mission Concept: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean Moon
Author(s) -
Phillips Cynthia B.,
Pappalardo Robert T.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo200002
Subject(s) - clipper (electronics) , astrobiology , jupiter (rocket family) , new moon , icy moon , geology , planet , aerospace engineering , astronomy , engineering , physics , space exploration , saturn , electrical engineering
The ice‐covered world Europa—one of the four large Galilean satellites of Jupiter—may be the best place in the solar system to look for currently existing life beyond Earth.