ALLAN HANDELMAN SHOW with DAVID W BROWN. THE MISSION. NASA's most ambitious science project. 2/2/21

Allan speaks with DAVID W. BROWN about his new book THE MISSION, about NASA's Europa Clipper is the most ambitious science project ever conceived. The mission is to investigate an icy moon of Jupiter to determine if it harbors conditions suitable for life! It’s set to launch in 2024. In the meantime, author and acclaimed journalist DAVID W. BROWN has written an extraordinary book about the journey of this mission thus far - a mission that may be our best shot yet at determining whether life exists anywhere else in our solar system.
Most Americans have probably never heard of Europa, one of the small moons circling Jupiter. Thanks to data sent back by the Galileo satellite in the 1990s, we know that it has a large saltwater ocean bubbling with thermal activity underneath a miles-thick layer of ice. Since these are very much like the conditions that scientists believe led to the appearance of life on Earth, researchers have been yearning to undertake a closer investigation of Europa and Jupiter’s three other icy moons.
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