NASA's Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter's moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million ...

Managed by JPL and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Europa Clipper is among NASA's most ambitious planetary ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has made significant progress with the successful deployment of its magnetometer boom, a key ...

Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months for a ...

Two close-ups of its moon Europa—where astrobiologists think ... all-important J-MAG magnetometer that will measure the magnetic fields of Jupiter and its moons. In total they cost about € ...

So rather than orbiting Europa, Clipper will make repeated close flybys of the moon, to reduce its exposure to the energetic particles trapped by Jupiter's magnetic field. The spacecraft will ...

While slightly smaller than our own moon, Europa is of particular interest ... high-resolution images of the surface, measure its magnetic fields, gather data in the infrared and ultraviolet ...

Europa Clipper will face a challenge once it reaches the planet's moon — exposure to radiation, since the moon is within Jupiter’s magnetic field. To combat this, the spacecraft's electronics ...

Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA has launched its first mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa ... Jupiter is surrounded by a magnetic field that is 20,000 times stronger ...