Europa Clipper Mission Concept: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean Moon

2014/05/20 by Cynthia B. Phillips, C. B. Phillips, R. T. Pappalardo +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Planetary Science and Exploration

paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/2014eo200002

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Abstract

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.

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