Europa Clipper
NASA’s mission to an ice-covered moon will carry a message between water worlds
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, bound for Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa in October 2024, will carry a laser-etched message celebrating humanity’s connection with water. The message is a tribute to previous NASA missions that released similar messages. As president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, International, I helped design the message on Clipper along with two … Read more
Jupiter’s moon Europa generates enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, NASA says
This illustration of Europa shows how its icy surface can shine even on the night side, as Jupiter continually bombards it with radiation.NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Juno mission discovered that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa produces 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours. It’s enough to keep a million people breathing for a day, but it’s much less … Read more
Several notable space missions are planned for 2024
The SpaceX “Starship” will launch on November 18 on its second test flight from Orbital Launch Pad 1 at the company’s Starbase Facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI Dec. 29 (UPI) — The year 2023 proved to be a big year for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample of … Read more
From the moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are scheduled to launch in 2024
The year 2023 proved to be a big year for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample of an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the moon’s south pole, and 2024 will be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative … Read more