NASA has confirmed “statistically significant evidence” from the Hubble Space Telescope indicating the presence of salty watery ejecta plumes from the Jovian moon Europa. The announcement lends further proof for the existence of a deep, saline ocean under Europa’s icy surface and creates new urgency and objectives for NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission in the mid-2020s.
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SLS managers have asked the aerospace industry for information about the potential use of existing…
The Space Launch System (SLS) teams are looking into the potential of finding extra roles…
As NASA managers continue to work through the evaluations into an exploration roadmap for the…
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Like its sister probe Voyager 2, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been an instrumental force…
