NASA Spacecraft To Assess If Jovian Moon Is A Sweet Spot For Life

Visual of Europa's surface

The stunningly diverse geology on the surface of Europa is revealed in this newly processed image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. The moon is a lead candidate in the search for life beyond Earth.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
Located more than five times farther away from the Sun than Earth, Europa seems an unlikely place to look for life. Surface temperatures on the ice-shrouded moon of Jupiter average -260F, and radiation levels are high enough to kill a human being in one day. But ever since NASA’s Voyager flybys in...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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