NASA's Europa Clipper probe has blasted off from Florida, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter* to discover whether it has the ingredients to support life.
*Lift-off aboard a powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket took place on Monday,* with the probe set to reach Jupiter's moon Europa in five and a half years.
*NASA confirmed that it had successfully acquired a signal from the probe* and that its massive solar arrays -- designed to capture the weak light that reaches Jupiter -- had fully unfolded.
*The mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about Europa,* which scientists believe could hold an ocean beneath its icy surface.
NASA's Europa Clipper probe has blasted off from Florida, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter* to discover whether it has the ingredients to support life.
🚀 🇺🇸 *Lift-off aboard a powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket took place on Monday,* with the probe set to reach Jupiter's moon Europa in five and a half years.
*NASA confirmed that it had successfully acquired a signal from the probe* and that its massive solar arrays -- designed to capture the weak light that reaches Jupiter -- had fully unfolded.
*The mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about Europa,* which scientists believe could hold an ocean beneath its icy surface.
