Nasa spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon | BBC News

Nasa's Europa Clipper spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Florida, US.
Nasa launched the spacecraft at 12:06 local time after hurricane Milton forced the mission to postpone plans last week.
Europa Clipper will now travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter.
It will not arrive until 2030 but what it finds could change what we know about life in our solar system.
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[@simonkelyanski4723]

Incredible! Congratulations to all those scientist who worked on this!

[@guff9567]

What? Destroying our atmosphere?

[@manny_k2988]

@@guff9567 aw shut up man

[@timothyclark2561]

Buzz said this years ago and people just laughed at him

[@guff9567]

@@manny_k2988 climate killer. Think more about what Greta is saying

[@barbaraskinner4924]

Can you get the information a bit sooner. I am 80 and I might never know. Put your toe down and go faster

[@malcolmdale9607]

I'm 85 and I'll try my hardest to live to 2030 because I really want to know if there is life on Europa.

[@barbaraskinner4924]

@@malcolmdale9607 well, I hoe we will both find out 😅😅 we will have to be very good x

[@flemwad]

I'm 97 and I want to find my way to the toilet

[@davidkennedy8929]

@@flemwadAnd then wonder what your doing there!

[@romeob.8369]

Well, maybe you can survive 5 years more?

[@hughmungus_698]

If the Aliens have any sense they will stay hidden, there is nothing to be gained from associating with humankind whatsoever

[@pan-africanmovement938]

So true.

[@professorakiba434]

Well its going to be anoxic and it will be microscopic so don't expect it to write back to you.

[@carlosmoreno5063]

Avatar all over again

[@Judith46795]

Someone warn the aliens

[@izaaguilo]

😂 definitely.

[@devilmyke]

I've always thought about this...if we found another planet with a civilization or vise versa there needs to be universal laws..if an advanced planet made contact with a lesser advanced planet it could totally ruin its natural course of development and can not happen..imagine a whole world learning a thousand years of technology at once

[@RabianOfficial]

😂

[@williamcaldwell-smith3865]

BBC will never change 🤔

[@sauriel596]

I think we're going to chip off more then we can chew one day. Whatever is out there may have already mastered living well on its own homeplanet.

[@edentahilla9295]

Can't deny the amazing work put into this, but humans are too fixated with finding alien life while threating the teeming life already existing on earth.

[@luminousfractal420]

exactly..we had it all all along. and we probably lost it.

[@jimoconnor2594]

There's alien life in 10 Downing street

[@LPSprincess4Eva]

And the white house

[@buyME_more357]

stray aLien in china 😢

[@Prime501]

Tbf I'm kind of surprised they can launch anything out of Florida rn.

[@paulhomewood]

99% of Florida was unaffected by Milton, which was little more than the winter gales we get here

[@azulaquaza4916]

Florida's a big state my guy, Hurricane didnt touch all of it

[@scottharrison812]

Hunt alien life, or hunt FOR alien life? If the former, one imagines the aliens going to ground in case they’re caught and brought back as trophies.

[@BumberClarke]

This is the news I need to see everyday…… great news 😃

[@guff9567]

A lot of atmosphere and climate was destroyed launching this . And what about all the starving Africans it could have fed?

[@seandavidson8918]

​@@guff9567 feel free to donate more of your income to those causes

[@straightreject2947]

​@guff9567 Shouldn't the starving Africans own government feed its people. Whats that to do with NASA. Blame games lol

[@guff9567]

@@straightreject2947 so all that lucrative rap & jazz music and sporting prowess wasn't stolen 😂😂😂

[@chrisdickens3500]

Fascinating how BBC resist mention of SpaceX!

[@westsonrises]

i noticed too lol. right until the last guy just couldn't help himself and gushed hahah

[@nathanlewis42]

If you had bothered to watch the whole thing you would know they said very nice things about SpaceX

[@RiteMoEquations]

The Maga nuts and Elon fanboys need to get laid.

[@elyohd]

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[@island97]

​@@michaelfisher7170 it's on their rocket. He could have just said " its blasting off on spacex falcon heavy " instead of " a space craft ".lol

[@outdoorsy01]

At this stage in our civilisation development, this should have been a double mission with a craft to land on the surface.

[@dahjeekwenglee5909]

without first knowing if it can host life it would be far too risky and unethical to land anything on the surface

[@GaryYates-pi9gy]

That would be neet to have a double mission like that, but we're not ready for a landing mission since the Jovian radiation is just to strong for that. 😉🙂

[@Darren-k8c]

100 years ago we were using horse and cart. How detached from reality can you be

[@Sundancer09]

Considering the state of human civilisation, we should leave alien life in peace.

[@paxromana1982]

Oh yeah? Just that simple huh? How does it withstand the radiation?

[@inductor1.77]

Don't need to go to a distant moon, find the spacecraft being hidden by the Pentagon.

[@stevenharper6888]

#Full disclosure 👍

[@PeterPhilep09890]

Amen fix the Biden Inflation.

[@luminousfractal420]

10oc to the north west of puerto rico 4years ago. yw (its shiny in the setting sun)

[@mauricedues231]

Wow

[@zantas-handle]

*'2010: Odyssey Two'* is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is the sequel to his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and was written in 1982. Curiously, it includes the famous quotation: "“All these worlds are yours. Except Europa. Attempt no landing there.” Coincidence? EDIT: Strangely, I'm watching as replies to me appear here and then some are swiftly removed.... what's that all about?

[@drivinginluton5745]

Well there is Artemis launching to the moon in the next few years. Maybe not a coincidence. lol Maybe not a good idea to Alexa up my place. 😯

[@luminousfractal420]

yup

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Let’s ignore that in the first book the story ends in orbit of Saturn but the second book pretends that Discovery & HAL are in orbit around Jupiter. Clarke probably figured out that turning Jupiter into a star is more plausible than turning Saturn into a star.

[@CuttinBlade]

"hunt alien life". 😂 Bro what?

[@guff9567]

The BBC are lying

[@seandavidson8918]

It's got machine guns on the front

[@cabinessenceking]

giant space harpoon on the front, nothing will be safe on Europa

[@Fokadas]

If you knew a thing about the arrogance of humans , specially the scientists you would be making such comment. They think they can use words like hunt, strike, annihilate, sanction, bla bla with aliens loke they do and have been doing to weak humans on earth.

[@oniksr538]

BBC: hunt alien life NASA: We're not landing there BBC: So you're getting carried away

[@standsintherain1]

Remember that old mash potato advert , when the Aliens are creased up laughing at the Human space ship 😂😂

[@tygod312]

That's what the government should be doing. Instead of spending money on wars around the world

[@professorakiba434]

I'd rather they spend it on finding something new than annihilating something old.

[@CricketEngland]

It’s life Jim but not as we know it

[@michaeldeleon8970]

👽👽👽👽 they live underground not in space lol.

[@luminousfractal420]

nah they are what we once were before our transport solar sysytem started its journey. we monitor the progress from in there :)

[@WhatIfSport.]

Say hi to them for me

[@Manor001]

We got aliens before GTA 6.

[@KhorzooKhan-v7j]

Europa? 😂 Doesn't Europe have its own space agency?

[@azulaquaza4916]

Ye, but im sure the moon was named hundreds of years ago by the Italian Astronomer Galileo

[@KhorzooKhan-v7j]

@@azulaquaza4916 I get it to some extent, but Galileo is not Europe.

[@davidmurphy563]

Like a European Space Agency, you mean? Could have been the first agency to land on a comet, made the first spacecraft to detect gravitational waves in space, the first to orbit two celestial bodies and the first to bring back solar wind samples. What a pity indeed. Education. Get one.

[@westsonrises]

bbc trying so hard not to mention spacex until that last fellow gushed hahah well done to NASA, APL, JPL, Goddard, andddddd Space X =) What a great couple of days for American space ventures

[@the3rddeck78]

If humans are sending the probe to Jupiter....That makes us the alien....Geeeez

[@straightreject2947]

This is what humans should be doing, NOT war and hate. Religious leaders, politicians, and dictators are the poison of our past and future.

[@luminousfractal420]

what looking for more resources to plunder. look at elons family history of african blood mines and then go watch arnies total recall..it where elon gets all his genius from 😶‍🌫️

[@Dptl]

😅

[@thetruth1167]

About time but I bet they'll come back with absolutely no evidence of alien life

[@digitaldobbie]

First thing they will find is a discarded shopping trolley and some traffic cones

[@Amwhoiam207]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="152">2:32</a> we haven't even discovered all the depths of the ocean here on earth.😢

[@glenn_r_frank_author]

We have to finish Earth first? No one ever told me that rule!

[@basilcurrie8138]

What do you mean by that? The entire seafloor has been mapped by satelites

[@pieceofshitzu2]

This is gonna be crazy to u... But there's actually a lot of scientists and engineers on this planet that can focus on multiple different things 🤯

[@codswallop164]

Europa you say.....The Last Battle?

[@Mong-Clizzy]

Based 🗿

[@ZozoPillo]

Exactly 😂

[@Sundancer09]

Humans were warned not to interfere with Europa in '2010: The Year We Make Contact'.

[@zantas-handle]

@@Sundancer09 Yes, the movie! Actually the book was 2 years earlier than the movie, way back in 1982: *'2010: Odyssey Two'* by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

[@Theo_Isaacs]

If they discovered aliens then would they really be inclined to reveal this to the world???

[@KeithRingo]

If its just fish.. yeah.

[@dletala]

Seriously, are we still hunting for alien life in 2024?😂

[@PyramidofGeezer]

They don't need to go to moons to find alien life. It's much closer than most people think

[@joeljoseph26]

Aliens live among us.

[@LewisNuke92]

A lot of them cross the English Channel on dinghies

[@SamL12345]

Well spill the beans then, where is it?? Can't just make a claim like that 🤣

[@millimunatti]

Alien life isn't individual, it's an entity, like BBC

[@johnbutler7542]

😂😂😂​@@LewisNuke92

[@SinclairPoppins]

NASA is leaving me for another species.

[@alland01]

you need water,? No problem. I can get it for from my kitchen...😅😅😅

[@romeob.8369]

This is pure science and amazing research! I don't understand why those uneducated people in the comment section are still mentally in the stone age?

[@RickPeake01]

Hunt! Search for.... big difference

[@pj9888]

I cant wait until they finally find intelligent life in our star system.

[@paololuckyluke2854]

For those of you who read this five years from now, I can give the answer immediately: no life on Jupiter, because of the deadly radiation.

[@luminousfractal420]

also a bit crushy. the ice would block radiation wouldnt it? thats why they want to go subsurface. theyre making drones atm to go swim there.

[@glitcherPROXx]

Why are people so obessed about leaving Earth? It's perfect down here.

[@luminousfractal420]

more more more

[@stevenray8737]

"Nasa spacecraft launched to investigate possible life on Europa" is probably what I would have gone for. 🤔

[@Bungle-UK]

America should focus on the aliens in its country.

[@luminousfractal420]

it is the aliens in its country 😂 much like the anglo saxons in britain :p where are the english from again? 😂

[@KevHCloud]

That massive BBC banner taking up 1/3 of the screen and bright red during take off is a damn eye-sore

[@luminousfractal420]

elon is a damn eye sore 😂

[@KevHCloud]

@@luminousfractal420 well he's certainly somthing, but the guy aside, Space-X have done some really awesome stuff when it comes to space travel

[@donaldamadi9223]

Why is the BBC presenter avoiding mentioning Spacex.

[@luminousfractal420]

because hes bad imagery after trying to cause civil war in the uk and stoking terrorism. or maybe they dont want to associate with blood money.

[@damithasap]

YOU KNOW DAMN WELL IT"S A MASS EFFECT RELAY POINT

[@LenaMellow]

“All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there…”

[@Greenpoloboy3]

If there are aliens reading this, please take me away and look after me and care for me forever. x

[@calebhaze497]

Needed SpaceX equipment to get off the ground😂 How are they doing this when they couldn’t even rescue their own astronauts

[@1112viggo]

"hunt alien life" whoever makes your titles needs a raise😂

[@MarcusAurelius7777]

"British Space Program" LOL -American 🤔🤗😂

[@luminousfractal420]

you provide the transport we'll do the proper work. ;)

[@tims.2832]

If they find any form of life in our neighborhood, it would be safe to say life is everywhere in the universe. That would be a new „they“ and make us realize the „we“. And if it proves the absence of life, we should feel the „we“ even more. It’s a peace-mission.

[@paulhomewood]

There's alien life here - he's called Ed Miliband

[@devilmyke]

Imagine that.. we are seeing what will be an alien craft to another planet..so instead of expecting aliens to show up on our planet in a spaceship we should imagine a research satellite arriving in our atmosphere

[@luminousfractal420]

unless "we" are just adaptable transport craft for our dna :) i like to think were being escorted to a safe place using a convenient solar system that was passing :) i never see anybody looking up our planetary position 14billion ago to see where we were.

[@JozelitoZanichelli]

They aren’t aliens. It may sound off topic but I chanced on this cool translator that does everything and more of what a translator should have, name is Immersive Translate and one thing that can really help is it’s new feature, which lets you create a custom AI expert for translating anything. Thank me later, it's gold.

[@UltraDoug]

Spoiler alert: Nothin there. There’s surely other life out there, but nowhere near us. Too much, too big. Like an ant traveling for 50 years just to get to the other side of a yard.

[@luminousfractal420]

we all become aliens to our own kind if we spread out.

[@UltraDoug]

@@luminousfractal420 very true

[@devilmyke]

Id love to finally see a megladon and a water planet sounds good lol..shame its frozen though on the outside can't see much surviving

[@MaheshWalatara]

We were warned not to disturb Europa?

[@honotron]

No need to go there to find life, just ask David Grusch

[@jeannekemp1737]

Why he's a misinformation bullshitter lol

[@WookiRahh]

@@jeannekemp1737 hahahhahaha yea ok... i rather believe him and congressmen over your misinformed opinion... if anything your the misinformation bullshitter

[@WormholeJim]

Alright, thanks for the update! See you in another 5-6 years to hear what happens next.

[@sean367]

Dont start sometime you cant finish

[@DaimonAnimations]

This is what we should be working towards, progress for humanity, not about Wars or A.I. taking our jobs away but looking for ways to make human lives better, not to enrich rich people with A.I.

[@RickyEaton-f3m]

How about working to solve earths problems first 5.2 Billion we wasted on this!!!!!! - imagine just being able to help a few homeless people or give some people food.

[@luminousfractal420]

its elon musk. his whole life is based on arnies total recall. look at the mining colony in that movie..thats not the advancement of humans. its an excuse for our failures here.

[@alexgonzalez8904]

This means we know something is there 😆

[@akashambrose]

Damn your title, I thought that the spacecraft blasted while launching.

[@billc2634]

Breaking news..Spacex just landed a rocket back on earth. Brilliant.

[@luminousfractal420]

int milk brilliant

[@jimmyburch87]

Activate project blue beam

[@ardeladimwit]

BREAKING: i takes 5 years for explore to cost top Jupiter and then round the mulberry bush 50x. So not exactly rush hour news.

[@derekdjonsgaming]

:'D Okay good luck, we'll try fix the shit here on earth in the meantime.

[@mariotorres9976]

Saludos cordiales desde Bucaramanga Colombia

[@JuanEnriqueFloresJr]

Hola Mario. ¿Como estas?

[@kevinburke9940]

Off to Europa and I haven’t programmed my VCR yet.

[@zantas-handle]

And my oven clock is still blinking 00:00 at me!

[@Darren-k8c]

"We'll find out if theres life in the univers" so what are the military videoing flying about earth? Literal indisputable official military footage of unknown objects flying about earth. Absolute nonesense

[@luminousfractal420]

ive seen something that looked human built but moved very differently. satelite about the size of a large space station (i could see it tumbling and gleaming in the setting sun) above all cloud layers so not a drone. it went across the sky like a normal satelite, then made a 120 degree turn instantly, and another, and again the other direction, making a kind of bow tie shape..then it accelerated off into the horizon in only 6 seconds and was gone. just north west of puerto rico about 4years ago. we dont have that tech as far as i know...to stop a large object moving instantly and apply all its motions in another direction in an instant. no flares or jets. just itself.

[@roseyboi1]

Now they wanna tax the aliens 😂

[@samslaughter6613]

Meanwhile musk catches a rocket mid air 5 mins after it launches

[@kimjongunistheleader]

Tell the aliens that i wanna meet them

[@Fokadas]

Nasa has been searching for aliens 8n the space for ages, aliens who breath oxygen and have appointment with their dermatologist, who also have to make it to train station just to be able to make it to their office in time. You know its gonna take some time to find them.

[@Jah_Babylon]

You know there's a space zombie virus dormant under the ice of thejupiter moon.

[@BrokenEggs-e9s]

It’s time to explore the Universe! For glory to the Human race!❤😅

[@207522]

I don't think NASA has to leave earth to find signs of alien life.

[@flaviosonanini6585]

wow cant wait for the results see ya in 5

[@wavydonjuan]

Why can’t we just capitalize off the water and take it to mars lol <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="571">9:31</a>

[@luminousfractal420]

ahh that was one of elons own ideas..cos hes such a genius. (it would all evaporate, not enough gravity to hold oxygen on mars). mans an idiot.

[@auro1986]

bbc, what cargo will be exchanged with intergallactic clients there near europa?

[@rotechs]

Ah! The zebra hunts for the lion! Be careful of what you search for because you just might find it!

[@buzzstationofficialm.g4222]

See u guys again in the next 5 years stay safe.

[@PandaPowerable]

And the money couldnt be better spent on this planet?

[@rachelmathews6097]

Do we have to piss off the aliens by saying we’re hunting them? 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@luminousfractal420]

predator laughs from the treeline

[@blackmage4100]

Explore strange new places, meet interesting aliens, hunt them. 😀

[@John-wm6fg]

Damn Billion Dollars Just to Hear Back in 6 Years The Moon Europa Smells Like Dead Fish !!!

[@SergioBlackDolphin]

Love this.

[@clementmariostlouis6686]

Venus has polar ice , in the dark all the time could provide deep sea earthly environment for life too .

[@luminousfractal420]

venus csn be terraformed to make an earth 2.0. it has all the chemicals required, just needs a nudge. compared to mars..which hasnt got enough gravity to hold an oxygen rich atmosphere, it all evaporates. mars is a dead end for humans. likely has a lot of minerals though. usa went to mars, russia went to venus. one of them was thibking ahead 😅 partly why elons a bad idea.

[@ChristineFisher123]

Thank god, we have some good news for a change .

[@muhammaduddin9268]

Where do the grey Aliens live? And how many light years?

[@chrisryan5339]

Don’t they all work for me BBC ?

[@keiichi8743]

The Europa Clipper is a great mission and it's amazing that they finally launched it And that's not a surprise that BBC somehow completely forgot to make a material about another of Elon Musk's great achievement that revolusionised the space industry aka Starship ift-5 when he caught the Super Heavy Booster mid-air

[@mauricedues231]

We’re not alone 👽 🚀 ⚡️

[@DelfinoGarza77]

They aren't alien, but there are 2 earthlings stuck in orbit

[@luminousfractal420]

thats what happens when you get caught with the drill 😂

[@tajspeen564]

I don't think there will be life in another planet life

[@mariar3933]

Alien be like ( leave us the f alone 🫥👾🌚🪐

[@spookie8969]

Here we go

[@clifftonicstudios7469]

Nasa stp iding it, you know theres aliens.

[@chazs9425]

Me Happy, So Happy to see this!

[@basilcurrie8138]

Uranus has water? Aren’t its moons all tiny rocks?

[@JimIrvine-t8r]

Europa is Jupiters moon

[@basilcurrie8138]

They mentioned Uranus having water though

[@basilcurrie8138]

@@JimIrvine-t8r It turns out they were right. Four of Uranus' moons - Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon - could have liquid oceans beneath their surface.

[@JimIrvine-t8r]

@@basilcurrie8138 if there’s a estimated 2 trillion galaxies out there, I think it’s safe to say that we’re not the only intelligent life

[@luminousfractal420]

​@@JimIrvine-t8r moons can have moons too

[@ozohirogi2577]

They won’t find any life there , I’m so disappointed they didn’t ask me! All this free knowledge in my brain🤨

[@vaderlee601]

Isn't ironic if they find dinosaur in europa