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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life

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Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface.

It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there could support it.

Another mission would be needed to flush out any microorganisms lurking there.

Its massive solar panels make Clipper the biggest craft built by NASA to investigate another planet.

Jupiter 's jumbo moon Ganymede is thought to host an underground ocean.

Callisto ’s ice sheet may be even thicker, possibly hiding an ocean.

While no ocean worlds have been confirmed beyond our solar system, scientists believe they’re out there.

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