Europa Clipper Prelaunch Media Reel

B-roll for media and public use. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will conduct the first detailed survey of Jupiter’s moon Europa to determine whether the ocean moon could hold conditions suitable for life. This reel includes clips showing assembly, integration, and testing of the spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, its shipment to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida via March Air Reserve Base, and further preparations made at NASA Kennedy for its October 2024 scheduled launch. Interview clips from mission team members from JPL and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, are also included. For more information on the mission, visit: go.nasa.gov/europaclipper. For Europa Clipper mission animations, visit: go.nasa.gov/483UaWd. For more video of the Europa Clipper mission, visit: go.nasa.gov/4gL21f2. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC

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All that I look like. Europa is a moon of Jupiter, about the size of Earth's moon, which has an icy surface that probably hides a subsurface ocean. Europa arguably has the best chance for life beyond Earth in our solar system today. So we need to go there to explore it, to understand, is this place a habitable environment that could really potentially support life? The most exciting thing about Europa can be summarized in one word Now think about Earth and think about all the water on earth and double that.

That's what we think is on Europa. Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission. you're up a clipper is launching on a Falcon Heavy, a very large vehicle. And even with that very large vehicle, we still need a little extra energy to get us all the way out to Jupiter. And so our trajectory is a mars Earth gravity assist.

So getting to Jupiter with a big spacecraft is pretty hard. What we try to do is borrow some momentum or some speed from other planets. So what we're going to do is we're going to fly by Mars, pick up some of its momentum. That's going to accelerate us. We're going to fly by Earth again, pick up even more momentum.

And that's going to slingshot us out to Jupiter in about five and a half years. For the first time ever, we're sitting in a spacecraft completely dedicated to studying this moon. I do multiple flybys with multiple instruments that will send back gobs of data for the scientists to learn new things. We the Europa Clipper mission is the first investigation, the first detailed look at an ocean world. And by understanding Europa, we are going to open up a whole new era of exploration Underneath Europa's icy shell, we think is a vast ocean.

A really deep ocean with lots of water. We also think at the seafloor at Europa, there could be this hydrothermal activity that could be supplying energy and chemistry into the ocean, making it a potentially habitable environment.

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