NASA’s Europa Clipper: Hunt for a Second Origin of Life

NASA’s Europa Clipper has started its 1.8 million mile journey to explore the habitability of Jupiter’s icy moon. Dr. Cynthia Phillips of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains the Europa Clipper mission, which is currently on its way to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Europa has a layer of ice on its surface, but beneath that is a vast ocean of liquid water, which could be home to life. This very exciting discovery would be proof of an independent source of life, as it is very unlikely that Earth and Europa have exchanged material over the life of our solar system!