NASA's Europa Clipper mission is on its way to find out if the conditions are right for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Follow @NASASolarSystem for updates.
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ALT Still frame from an animated rendition of the poem "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa." It shows a book laying open, with colorful galaxies rising from its pages.
ALT A global view of Mars shows a rainbow of colors on the surface, where red and yellow represent warmer surface temperatures, and blue and purple represent cooler areas.
ALT a full-disc view of the smooth, cracked surface of Europa
ALT Jupiter's ice moon Europa, as seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Reddish cracks and grooves cross its otherwise relatively smooth, white surface.
ALT Illustration showing a cross-section of Europa's interior. The top layer is ice, with cracks that may possible vent geysers to the surface. Below that is global ocean of liquid water. The bottom layer is the rocky core, which could have volcanic vents.
ALT An illustration showing the Europa Clipper spacecraft above a regulation basketball court, showing that from end to end, the spacecraft is about the length of the court.
ALT An illustration of the International Space Station over a football field with "NASA" painted in the end zones. The space station and field are about the same size. Credit: NASA
ALT The curving horizon of Enceladus below the stark darkness of space. The moon's surface is wrinkled. Along two fissures, misty plumes can be seen rising.
ALT A starfield image taken by the Psyche spacecraft on January 27, 2025, using its Psyche Multispectral Imager B with a 5-second exposure at 540 nm. The image captures Jupiter and Mars, both labeled near the center. A zoomed-in inset in the lower-left corner highlights Jupiter’s four largest moons—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—visible as bright dots near the planet. Several background stars, including Omega¹ Tau, Omega² Tau, and V1137 Tau, are labeled.
ALT Orbit diagram showing the solar system from above, with the orbits of Earth, Mars, and Jupiter shown as circles. A blue line shows the spacecraft's trajectory, starting at Earth, flying by mars, looping back to Earth, and then flinging out to Jupiter.