Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

"Europa is an ice covered moon of Jupiter ... An ice-penetrating radar will "see" up to 19 miles beneath the icy crust to look for pockets of water in the ice and helping scientists understand ...

NASA/JPL/DLR The left image shows the natural appearance of Europa, and the right image uses colour to highlight the water-ice crust Space scientists are very cautious when talking about the ...

Across nearly 50 flybys, Europa Clipper will dive as close as 16 miles above Europa’s icy crust, gathering an unprecedented trove of data and revealing what has lain hidden for eons.

Only some 60 million years old, Europa's brittle surface appears to be in constant flux. Energy-rich compounds there could reach the ocean as pieces of the crust slide under each other.

Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede ... The Cryobot then sends this information through the ice crust to the lunar surface probe before relaying it to Earth. Underwater exploration robots are ...