One of the most fundamental discoveries made in the past two decades is that the ocean worlds of the outer solar system, including Europa, are likely to contain habitable environments that can support life as we know it.
This view of the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa, is a mosaic of two pictures taken by the Solid State Imaging system on board the Galileo spacecraft during a close flyby of Europa on Feb. 20, 1997. This double ridge is about 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) wide and stands some 330 yards (300 meters) high.
NASA has launched its next flagship science mission, Europa Clipper - the space agency's first dedicated spacecraft mission to study an ocean world beyond Earth - and Cornell scientists will play a role in reporting discoveries about its habitability.
The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where Jonathan Lunine, a member of Europa Clipper's gravity science team, was recently named chief scientist, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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