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“The dream result is to understand,” says Europa Clipper's Project Scientist Robert Pappalardo, referred to as the mission’s Jean-Luc Picard. “Can we identify ... an oasis at Europa? Maybe there's shallow liquid water on the surface. That could be a place we might send a Lander in the future.”


Supercluster Chief Robin Seemangal visits the legendary Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California for the first time to see the Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built by NASA.

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