Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean World

Recorded May 22, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Robert Pappalardo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter's moon Europa may be a habitable world, containing the “ingredients” necessary for life within its ocean. Data from NASA’s earlier Galileo mission suggest that a global salty ocean exists beneath the icy surface. Tides have broken that floating ice shell to create impressive ridges, bands, and chaotic terrains. The Europa Clipper mission will explore Europa with a suite of instruments, through multiple close flybys from Jupiter orbit, examining the moon’s ice shell, ocean, and geology. And it will search for current activity -including plumes that emerge from surface cracks. Dr. Pappalardo, the mission's Project Scientist, summarizes our understanding of Europa and the and status and promise of the Europa Clipper.

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Thank you for an invitation in the video program.

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Andrew has been hosting these wonderful lectures for as long as I can remember. Always a pleasure to hear his voice. Keep on rocking for the free world Mr F.

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[@saltyassassin]

I can't wait for the science to start coming in from Europa!

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you're gonna have to!

[@SuperiorDave]

​@SVAstronomyLectures we are all waiting patiently, at the edge of our seats. Lol

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That is going to be a hell of a wait but it's going to be great when it happens.

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Great presentation. Thank you.

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Ok I subscribed and rang the bell. Thanks for your hard work.

[@LuciFeric137]

Hope I'm still alive...god speed clipper. Thank you Dr. Pappalardo

[@ArtSailing]

Just found this chanel and Im amazed! And this is the only first video I watched. Yes, the space is the biggest Ocean we will sail and theres so many islands to discover there.

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Somewhere at NASA is a guy who's in charge of coming up with all the acronyms and he has the best job in the place.

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Is it possible now the previously observed "ploomb" of steam or something else gushing out periodically ?

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We were told "not to go to Europa" ( a Space Oddity😅)

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Jeez what a nerd! But enough about me...