{"id":733,"date":"2024-10-21T02:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T05:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labwp.com.br\/news\/spacecraft-blasts-off-to-hunt-alien-life-on-a-distant-moon\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T02:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T05:21:45","slug":"spacecraft-blasts-off-to-hunt-alien-life-on-a-distant-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labwp.com.br\/news\/spacecraft-blasts-off-to-hunt-alien-life-on-a-distant-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">Moment Nasa spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on Jupiter moon<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter\u2019s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Nasa launched the spacecraft at 12:06 local time (16:06 GMT) after hurricane Milton forced the mission to postpone plans last week.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Europa Clipper will now travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It will not arrive until 2030 but what it finds could change what we know about life in our solar system.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Trapped under the moon\u2019s surface could be a vast ocean with double the amount of water on Earth.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The spacecraft is chasing a European mission that left last year, but using a cosmic piggyback, it will overtake and arrive first.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 jFCfG\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/0108\/live\/12876570-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/0108\/live\/12876570-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/0108\/live\/12876570-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/0108\/live\/12876570-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/0108\/live\/12876570-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/0108\/live\/12876570-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/0108\/live\/12876570-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/0108\/live\/12876570-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Getty Images The NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft is viewed during a media tour inside a Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on April 11, 2024 in Pasadena, California. \" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 efFcac\"\/><span class=\"sc-a34861b-2 fxQYxK\">Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">The spacecraft has been developed at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><h2 class=\"sc-518485e5-0 kRvAla\">A moon five times brighter than ours<!-- --><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Years in the making, the Europa Clipper launch was delayed at the last minute after hurricane Milton blasted Florida this week.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The spacecraft was rushed indoors for shelter, but after checking the launchpad at Cape Canaveral for damage, engineers have now given the go-ahead for lift-off at 12:06 local time (16:06 GMT).<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cIf we discover life so far away from the Sun, it would imply a separate origin of life to the Earth,\u201d says Mark Fox-Powell, a planetary microbiologist at the Open University.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cThat is hugely significant, because if that happens twice in our solar system, it could mean life is really common,\u201d he says.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Located 628 million kilometres from Earth, Europa is just a bit bigger than our moon, but that is where the similarity ends.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">If it was in our skies, it would shine five times brighter because the water ice would reflect much more sunlight.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Its icy crust is up to 25km thick, and sloshing beneath, there could be a vast saltwater ocean. There may also be chemicals that are the ingredients for simple life.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 jFCfG\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/8ff5\/live\/9f6eaea0-8810-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.png.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/8ff5\/live\/9f6eaea0-8810-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.png.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/8ff5\/live\/9f6eaea0-8810-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.png.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/8ff5\/live\/9f6eaea0-8810-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.png.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/8ff5\/live\/9f6eaea0-8810-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.png.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/8ff5\/live\/9f6eaea0-8810-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.png.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/8ff5\/live\/9f6eaea0-8810-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.png.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/8ff5\/live\/9f6eaea0-8810-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.png.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Image showing the Europa Clipper spacecraft, and an image of a mapping imaging spectrometer used to analyse infrared light\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 efFcac\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">The spacecraft is just longer than a professional basketball court and weighs around the same as an African elephant<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Scientists first realised Europa might support life in the 1970s when, peering through a telescope in Arizona, they saw water ice.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts captured the first close-up images, and then in 1995 Nasa\u2019s Galileo spacecraft flew past Europa taking some deeply puzzling pictures. They showed a surface riddled with dark, reddish-brown cracks, fractures that may contain salts and sulfur compounds that could support life.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Hubble space telescope has since taken pictures of what might be plumes of water ejected 100 miles (160 kilometers) above the moon\u2019s surface<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But none of those missions got close enough to Europa for long enough to really understand it.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><h2 class=\"sc-518485e5-0 kRvAla\">Flying through plumes of water<!-- --><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Now scientists hope that instruments on Nasa\u2019s Clipper spacecraft will map almost the entire moon, as well as collect dust particles and fly through the water plumes.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Britney Schmidt, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell university in the US, helped to design a laser onboard that will see through the ice.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 jFCfG\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/4e0f\/live\/1ea13c50-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/4e0f\/live\/1ea13c50-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/4e0f\/live\/1ea13c50-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/4e0f\/live\/1ea13c50-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/4e0f\/live\/1ea13c50-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/4e0f\/live\/1ea13c50-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/4e0f\/live\/1ea13c50-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/4e0f\/live\/1ea13c50-89d4-11ef-a413-c9ce640e136d.jpg.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/SETI Institute The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 efFcac\"\/><span class=\"sc-a34861b-2 fxQYxK\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/SETI Institute<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">The strange surface of Europa &#8211; captured by Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cI&#8217;m most excited about understanding Europa\u2019s plumbing. Where&#8217;s the water? Europa has the ice version of Earth\u2019s subduction zones, magma chambers and tectonics &#8211; we\u2019re going to try to see into those regions and map them,\u201d she says.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Her instrument, which is called Reason, was tested in Antarctica.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But unlike on Earth, all the instruments on Clipper will be exposed to huge amounts of radiation which Prof Schmidt says is a \u201cmajor concern.\u201d<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The spacecraft should fly past Europa about 50 times, and each time, it will be blasted with radiation equivalent to one million X-rays.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cMuch of the electronics are in a vault that&#8217;s heavily shielded to keep out radiation,\u201d Prof Schmidt explains.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The spaceship is the largest ever built to visit a planet and has a long journey ahead. Travelling 1.8 billion miles, it will pass by both the Earth and Mars to propel itself further towards Jupiter in what is called the sling-shot effect.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 jFCfG\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/1298\/live\/b56e5370-8812-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.png.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1298\/live\/b56e5370-8812-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.png.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1298\/live\/b56e5370-8812-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.png.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/1298\/live\/b56e5370-8812-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.png.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/1298\/live\/b56e5370-8812-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.png.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/1298\/live\/b56e5370-8812-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.png.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/1298\/live\/b56e5370-8812-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.png.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/1298\/live\/b56e5370-8812-11ef-b6b0-c9af5f7f16e4.png.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"An illustration showing the route Europa Clipper will take including the slingshot-effect of using the gravitational pull of Mars and Earth to propel itself\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 efFcac\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">Europa Clipper will travel for five and a half years to reach Jupiter<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It cannot carry enough fuel to motor itself all the way alone, so it will piggyback off the momentum of Earth and Mars\u2019s gravitational pull.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It will overtake JUICE, the European Space Agency\u2019s spaceship that will also visit Europa on its way to another of Jupiter\u2019s moons called Ganeymede.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Once Clipper approaches Europa in 2030 it will switch on its engines again to carefully manoeuvre itself into the right orbit.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 jFCfG\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-a34861b-1 jxzoZC\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 cOpVbP hide-when-no-script\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/8f29\/live\/91fed0c0-8828-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/8f29\/live\/91fed0c0-8828-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/8f29\/live\/91fed0c0-8828-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/8f29\/live\/91fed0c0-8828-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/8f29\/live\/91fed0c0-8828-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/8f29\/live\/91fed0c0-8828-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/8f29\/live\/91fed0c0-8828-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/8f29\/live\/91fed0c0-8828-11ef-8936-1185f9e7d044.jpg.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"NASA\/JPL\/DLR This image shows two views of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter's ice-covered satellite, Europa. The left image shows the approximate natural color appearance of Europa. The image on the right is a false-color composite version combining violet, green and infrared images to enhance color differences in the predominantly water-ice crust of Europa. Dark brown areas represent rocky material derived from the interior, implanted by impact, or from a combination of interior and exterior sources. Bright plains in the polar areas (top and bottom) are shown in tones of blue to distinguish possibly coarse-grained ice (dark blue) from fine-grained ice (light blue). Long, dark lines are fractures in the crust, some of which are more than 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) long. The bright feature containing a central dark spot in the lower third of the image is a young impact crater some 50 kilometers (31 miles) in diameter. This crater has been provisionally named &quot;Pwyll&quot; for the Celtic god of the underworld.\" class=\"sc-a34861b-0 efFcac\"\/><span class=\"sc-a34861b-2 fxQYxK\">NASA\/JPL\/DLR<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-8353772e-0 cvNhQw\">The left image shows the natural appearance of Europa, and the right image uses colour to highlight the water-ice crust<!-- --><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Space scientists are very cautious when talking about the chances of discovering life &#8211; there is no expectation that they will find human-like creatures or animals.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cWe are searching for the potential for habitability and you need four things &#8211; liquid water, a heat source, and organic material. Finally those three ingredients need to be stable over a long enough period of time that something can happen,\u201d explains Michelle Dougherty, professor of space physics at Imperial College in London.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">And they hope that if they can understand the ice surface better, they will know where to land a craft on a future mission.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An international team of scientists with Nasa, the Jet Propulsion Lab and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab will oversee the odyssey.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">At a time when there is a space launch virtually every week, this mission promises something different, suggests Professor Fox-Powell.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cThere&#8217;s no profit being made. This is about exploration and curiosity, and pushing back the boundaries of our knowledge of our place in the universe,\u201d he says.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1482xzrge1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Moment Nasa spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on Jupiter moon A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter\u2019s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 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