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Europa Clipper: Journey to an Ocean

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Why NASA is sending a probe to Europa 鈥� and what it鈥檚 looking for

Past observations have indicated that the icy moon of Jupiter has a vast subsurface ocean. Launching in October, NASA鈥檚 Europa Clipper will go there in search of evidence that it could support life

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Titan as snapped by NASA's Cassini spacecraft showing the sun glinting off of the moon's north polar seas

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Saturn’s moon Titan is experiencing coastal erosion from methane seas

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How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth’s orbit?

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Jupiter’s moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billions of years

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Mars and it's two moons, Phobos and Deimos

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Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons

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Titan鈥檚 sand dunes may be made of smashed up small moons

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Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn鈥檚 moon Titan

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Europa鈥檚 seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life

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The moons of Mars may have been formed in an icy planetary collision

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cross-section through Europa

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Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

The ocean on Jupiter鈥檚 icy moon Europa is one of the best places we have found to search for alien life, but it might have less oxygen than researchers had thought

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Why we’re finally on the cusp of finding exomoons around other planets

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Tiny new moons have been spotted orbiting Neptune and Uranus

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Carbon dioxide gas spotted in atmosphere of Jupiter鈥檚 moon Callisto

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Strange 鈥榤agic islands鈥� on Saturn鈥檚 moon Titan may be porous icebergs

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