NASA launches a space mission to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, in search of life
The Europa Clipper spacecraft is on an almost six-year, 3 billion kilometres (1.8b miles) mission to learn whether conditions on Jupiter’s moon could sustain life in what scientists believe could be a deep ocean hidden beneath its icy surface.
The spacecraft launched Monday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from a NASA facility on Florida’s east coast.
The launch was delayed several days by the impacts of Hurricane Milton at its Florida launch site.
The launch also came a day after SpaceX launched its fifth Starship test flight from Texas and returned the rocket’s booster to land for the first time.
Al Jazeera’s Felix Nyawara reports.
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