Nasa launched the Europa Clipper to search for life on Jupiter’s moon

Nasa launched the Europa Clipper to search for life on Jupiter and its moon, Europa.
It was launched from a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Nasa’s spacecraft has been designed to study Jupiter’s Europa moon’s icy surface and the subsurface ocean believed to exist beneath.
Europa Clipper will not directly search for life, but it will examine whether Europa’s environment could support it or not.
Its findings may pave the way for future missions aimed at detecting life.
Europa is one of Jupiter’s 95 known moons. It is slightly smaller than Earth’s moon.
It is covered by an ice sheet estimated to be 10 to 15 miles (15 to 24 km) thick.
Scientists believe that a vast ocean exists under this frozen surface. This ocean could be a rich environment for life due to the presence of water.
The Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft Nasa has built for planetary exploration.