NASA spacecraft to scour Jupiter’s icy moon in search of life-supporting conditions

NASA spacecraft to scour Jupiter’s icy moon in search of life-supporting conditions

Europa Clipper, NASA's largest spacecraft built to study another planet, will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Europa Clipper spacecraft over the moon, Europa, with Jupiter in the background. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Europa Clipper spacecraft above the surface of the moon Europa, foreground, and Jupiter behind. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is pictured with two of its satellites, Io on the left and Europa on the right, in March 1979. The image was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. (Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)