The Europa Clipper mission will probe Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
wonder if where there is water, there could also be life. Europa Clipper will make at least 45 close flybys of the Jovian moon. From the spacecraft's vantage point high above Europa's surface, Europa Clipper should be able to find out whether the conditions in Europa's ocean are suitable for life as we know it.
Intense radiation from Jupiter produces oxidants at the surface too. Oxidants are needed for microbes, like how a fire on Earth needs both a fuel source and oxygen to keep burning. Along with the gases produced in hydrothermal vents, there might be all that life needs to get started, grow and survive in Europa's ocean.
We can constrain the properties of the ocean from combining measurements of the gravity field, magnetic field and ice-penetrating radar.helps us figure out how deep the seafloor is, the magnetic field relates to the amount and type of salts dissolved in the water, and radar can tell us the thickness of the ice shell during a flyby.
We need measurements from the other instruments to better understand which kinds of salts are likely to be found in the ocean. When we put everything together, we can infer what pressure, temperature and salt content the ocean exists under. Then, comparing to similar Earth environments allows us to understand the ocean's habitability.
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