NASA To Livestream Exciting Hunt For Alien Life On A Habitable Ocean Moon, Watch Here

NASA is set to livestream the launch of its Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in a search for signs for possible alien life. Europa Clipper will enter orbit around Jupiter around April 2030, and is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever deployed for a planetary mission.

Joining the journey with the Europa Clipper will be a special vault plate, which will have a visual representation of the word water in 103 spoken languages on one side, and an engraving of US Poet Laureate Ada Limon’s poem “In Praise of Mystery. A Poem for Europa,” an engraving of the Drake Equation, and tribute to planetary scientist Ron Greeley on the other side.

The mission’s three main science objectives are to understand the nature of the ice shell and the ocean beneath it, as well as the moon’s composition and geology. Scientists involved ...