#clipper Europa

[z0n1xsartsideblog]

Cringetober day 24: Niche Interest: 17776!

was looking around in the 17776 tag for something to draw for this prompt and found @gardenofeden5457’s post! Thought it’d be fun to draw a humanish design so drew this!

here’s the post: https://www.tumblr.com/gardenofeden5457/765369205365293056/clipper-and-juice-are-siblings-in-my-head-this

I think clipper the actual probe is really cool so it’s also an excuse to draw it!

On my side the quality of the image really sucks for some reason so hopefully that fixes itself

lil design note but they have 4 moons on their design because of the Galilean moons! The one with the star in the collar is supposed to be Europa! I would have put 95 moons on their design if i had the time and pixels for it lol

I also really like how I stylized the shapes on the probe/head turned out nice

might make a colored version later :3

REBLOGS OVER LIKES!!!

[todays-xkcd]

They had BETTER make this a sample return mission.

Europa Clipper [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A space probe with two rectangular solar panels, a circular dish of the front, and a massive spoon on the bottom, twice the length of its solar panels]

[Below the panel:] Good news: NASA's Europa Clipper is en route to Europa and has successfully deployed its crème brûlée spoon.

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'The Europa Clipper has been launched.' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

The mission to find life on Jupiter's moon Europa has been started. Maybe we'll find some giant sea monsters!

For those who want to watch the launch:

[mindblowingscience]

NASA has launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft on an almost 10-year mission to learn whether conditions on Jupiter’s moon could sustain life in what scientists believe could be a deep ocean hidden beneath its icy surface. The spacecraft, which is supposed to travel 3 billion kilometres (1.8 billion miles), was launched on Monday on board SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from a NASA facility on Florida’s east coast.

Continue Reading.

[wheeloffortune-design]

If you're looking for a reason to keep going, may I suggest the Europa Clipper?

They sent a space probe to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.

Here's what they might find:

Underground oceans

Of water

Hydrothermal vents

Possibly life?!?!?!

Imagine, being the first generation in history to learn if there is indeed life outside of Earth.

And the greatest part? They already launched the probe. Nothing that Earth's politics can do to stop it now. It's already flying.

Aren't you curious?!?!?!

Here's the wiki article

And a video that explains the project.

[timesnewfishcat]

the offering of water

europa clipper, launched 10/14/24

[go-go-gadget-autism]

Europa Clipper! i am terrified but utterly excited <3

[aspaceinthecosmos]

NASA’s Europa Clipper should be launching in 50 minutes!

watch the livestream on youtube or nasa.gov!

[gardenofeden5457]

clipper and juice are siblings in my head :]

this is how i cope with finding out that both clipper and juice have scheduled de-orbiting dates, clipper's in 2034 and juice's in 2035

[tfemluna]

big day for europa fans (me)

[airlocksandaviaries]

Y'ALL ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE U TO THE NEWEST THING THAT I AM HYPED AF ABOUT - EUROPA CLIPPER!!!!

SHE'S LAUNCHING ON OCTOBER 10 TO EXPLORE JUPITER'S MOON 🥹 I'M SO EXCITED

LOOK AT MY GIRL SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL 😍

more pictures here 💖🛰️🚀🔭✨

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

8 Things to Know About NASA’s Mission to an Ocean Moon of Jupiter

The first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth, Europa Clipper aims to find out if the ice-encased moon Europa could be habitable.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Europa, an intriguing icy moon of Jupiter. The spacecraft’s launch period opens Thursday, Oct. 10.

Data from previous NASA missions has provided scientists with strong evidence that an enormous salty ocean lies underneath the frozen surface of the moon. Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter and conduct 49 close flybys of the moon to gather data needed to determine whether there are places below its thick frozen crust that could support life.

Here are eight things to know about the mission:

1. Europa is one of the most promising places to look for currently habitable conditions beyond Earth.

There’s scientific evidence that the ingredients for life — water, the right chemistry, and energy — may exist at Europa right now. This mission will gather the information scientists need to find out for sure. The moon may hold an internal ocean with twice the water of Earth’s oceans combined, and it may also host organic compounds and energy sources under its surface. If the mission determines that Europa is habitable, it would mean there may be more habitable worlds in our solar system and beyond than we have imagined.

2. The spacecraft will fly through one of the most punishing radiation environments in our solar system — second only to the Sun’s.

Jupiter is surrounded by a gigantic magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s. As the field spins, it captures and accelerates charged particles, creating radiation that can damage spacecraft. Mission engineers designed a spacecraft vault to shield sensitive electronics from radiation, and they plotted orbits that will limit the time Europa Clipper spends in most radiation-heavy areas around Jupiter.

3. Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter, studying Europa while flying by the moon dozens of times.

The spacecraft will make looping orbits around Jupiter that bring it close to Europa for 49 science-dedicated flybys. On each orbit, the spacecraft will spend less than a day in Jupiter’s dangerous radiation zone near Europa before zipping back out. Two to three weeks later, it will repeat the process, making another flyby.

4. Europa Clipper features NASA’s most sophisticated suite of science instruments yet.

To determine if Europa is habitable, Europa Clipper must assess the moon’s interior, composition, and geology. The spacecraft carries nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses the telecommunications system. In order to obtain the best science during each flyby, all the science instruments will operate simultaneously on every pass. Scientists will then layer the data together to paint a full picture of the moon.

5. With antennas and solar arrays fully deployed, Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission.

The spacecraft extends 100 feet (30.5 meters) from one end to the other and about 58 feet (17.6 meters) across. That’s bigger than a basketball court, thanks in large part to the solar arrays, which need to be huge so they can collect enough sunlight while near Jupiter to power the instruments, electronics, and other subsystems.

6. It’s a long journey to Jupiter.

Jupiter is on average some 480 million miles (about 770 million kilometers) from Earth; both planets are in motion, and a spacecraft can carry only a limited amount of fuel. Mission planners are sending Europa Clipper past Mars and then Earth, using the planets’ gravity as a slingshot to add speed to the spacecraft’s trek. After journeying about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) over 5½ years, the spacecraft will fire its engines to enter orbit around Jupiter in 2030.

7. Institutions across the U.S. and Europe have contributed to Europa Clipper.

Currently, about a thousand people work on the mission, including more than 220 scientists from both the U.S. and Europe. Since the mission was officially approved in 2015, more than 4,000 people have contributed to Europa Clipper, including teams who work for contractors and subcontractors.

8. More than 2.6 million of us are riding along with the spacecraft, bringing greetings from one water world to another.

As part of a mission campaign called “Message in a Bottle,” the spacecraft is carrying a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, cosigned by millions of people from nearly every country in the world. Their names have been stenciled onto a microchip attached to a tantalum metal plate that seals the spacecraft’s electronics vault. The plate also features waveforms of people saying the word “water” in over 100 spoken languages.

More About Europa Clipper

Europa Clipper’s three main science objectives are to determine the thickness of the moon’s icy shell and its interactions with the ocean below, to investigate its composition, and to characterize its geology. The mission’s detailed exploration of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet.

Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory leads the development of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The main spacecraft body was designed by APL in collaboration with JPL and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The Planetary Missions Program Office at Marshall executes program management of the Europa Clipper mission.

NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy, manages the launch service for the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy.

[kuipernicus]

I think some of you fail to realize how many BADASS PRESSURE DESIGNS we can get from the Europa Clipper. Literal space sea monsters. Are you hearing me.

[mindblowingscience]

After decades of dreaming of Jupiter’s moon Europa — and the vast ocean that probably lies beneath its icy surface — scientists are now weeks away from sending a spacecraft there. NASA confirmed yesterday that its Europa Clipper mission will launch on schedule, following a scare that it might have to be significantly delayed owing to possibly faulty transistors installed on the US$5-billion spacecraft. “We are confident that our beautiful spacecraft and capable team are ready for launch operations and our full science mission at Europa,” Laurie Leshin, the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said at a 9 September press conference. With a mass of more than 3.2 tonnes, a height of roughly 5 metres, and a width of more than 30 metres with its solar panels fully unfurled, Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft that NASA has ever built for a planetary mission. Yesterday, the mission passed what’s known in NASA parlance as ‘key decision point E’ — the final review hurdle that needs to be cleared before proceeding towards launch. The spacecraft’s launch window opens on 10 October.

Continue Reading.

[incandescent-creativity]

Europa clipper launching in October next year??? They should do it on the 14th. Just for me.