
#Industry News
Searching for E.T.
Julian Fagge introduces our latest Engineering Explained on the Europa Clipper mission
‘Is there life beyond Earth?’ It’s an age-old question, but one we’ve yet been able to answer definitively. In 2030, maybe, that will change. That’s when NASA’s recent mission – the Europa Clipper, which launched in 2024 – will begin its detailed study of the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons. Europa has excited the scientific community because, like Earth, it is an ocean world, with a vast, energised body of saltwater locked under its icy surface that could harbour extraterrestrial microbes.