The Europa Clipper spacecraft is on an virtually six-year, 3 billion kilometres (1.8b miles) mission to be taught whether or not situations on Jupiter’s moon may maintain life in what scientists consider may very well be a deep ocean hidden beneath its icy floor.
The spacecraft launched Monday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from a NASA facility on Florida’s east coast.
The launch was delayed a number of days by the impacts of Hurricane Milton at its Florida launch website.
The launch additionally got here a day after SpaceX launched its fifth Starship check flight from Texas and returned the rocket’s booster to land for the primary time.
Al Jazeera’s Felix Nyawara studies.
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