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Europa Clipper Mission
Discovery, Scientific
The Europa Clipper was an unmanned interplanetary mission to Jupiter's moon Europa spearheaded by NASA, comprising of an autonomous orbiter and smaller lander. The Clipper was launched in June 2023 and arrived at the Jovian subsystem in October of 2029, making 75 orbital passes by the moon before correcting for a death plunge into the Jovian atmosphere. In early 2030, the probe flew through an active water plume and detected complex organic molecules (including amino acids) during spectroscopic analysis of vapor samples. In 2033, the probe also dropped its lander, the first human-made object to touch the moon's surface, which discovered further chemical evidence to support the existence of life in the Europan ocean: the first indication to humans of life beyond Earth.
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