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🎤Earlier today, more than 300 NASA employees had the opportunity to hear from Europa Clipper’s project scientist Dr. Robert Pappalardo in person and virtually. Dr. Pappalardo spoke to employees about the science behind exploring Jupiter's moon Europa, and how it could be the

🚀 T-minus 2 hours until liftoff! This SpaceX Falcon Heavy is set to soar at 12:06pm EDT, and we’ve got you covered! Turn post notifications 🔛 to get countdown updates and insider info on the NASA Europa Clipper mission. Buckle up and stay tuned – we’re in for quite the

There's a REASON! No, literally, there's a REASON (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface)! On board NASA Europa Clipper, this ice-penetrating radar can bounce waves off any liquid water under the surface, creating a kind of CT scan of Europa’s ice shell.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón got to do something very special on Monday. She watched as a spacecraft carrying her poem, "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa," lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the first step in a 1.8-billion mile voyage to Jupiter’s moon. 🧵

One week ago: we set sail for Jupiter's ocean moon Europa. The spacecraft is now about 2.41 million miles (3.88 million kilometers) from Earth. Next up are a series of checkouts and instrument deployments, then a flyby of Mars. All about the mission: nasa.gov/europaclipper

We're thrilled that Bob Pappalardo - find me on Bluesky will be giving a Keck Institute for Space Studies guest lecture on the science of the NASA Europa Clipper mission! 📅Dec 4th from 4:30pm 🌏Ramo Auditorium, Caltech 📥Register here: forms.office.com/r/LVdnnm7n3X Full details on the KISS website: kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/2024_…

💡We made TIME! TIME released its “Inventions of 2024” annual listing of innovations and two LSP missions made the cut! #EuropaClipper, the largest NASA spacecraft ever built for a planetary mission and NASA's first mission dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth.

It's an honor to have my piece, delivered to the NASA Europa Clipper team on the eve before launch, in Washington Post Opinions. It's inspired in part by my late mom, who wrote poetry all her life, and my late brother, who passed away too soon to see this remarkable mission launch toward Europa.

I'll be a guest on All Space Considered at the Griffith Observatory this Thursday, discussing the NASA Europa Clipper mission. Details are here: <instagram.com/griffithobserv…>. Come on out, or stream at <youtube.com/watch?v=8wGRz5…> !

The next in the series of Space Science Reviews papers summarizing the NASA Europa Clipper mission is published! Read about the incredible Europa Imaging System’s dual cameras, with free access to the article: The Europa Imaging System (EIS) Investigation. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The recording of Bob Pappalardo - find me on Bluesky's lecture are now available on the Keck Institute for Space Studies website and YouTube! 🛜kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/2024_… 📽️youtu.be/Ke4zBiCe-64?si…

Undergraduate students: apply for a summer internship with a NASA Europa Clipper science team member!

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The NASA Europa Clipper star tracker images of the constellation Corvus are something to crow about! jpl.nasa.gov/news/en-route-…

This is despicable. npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-…

Speak up for space exploration! #WeAreNASA

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Laying off thousands of NASA employees isn’t going to make anything better. NASA is the scientific envy of the world. I’m horrified by the number of people who think SpaceX can “replace” NASA. SpaceX doesn’t do astronomy. They do spacecraft.

Folks - I'd like to let you know the NASA Europa Clipper SSR papers are now all published & where to find them, but unfortunately, X-Twitter has become a cesspool and is owned by a neo-Nazi, so I will no longer be posting here. Please come find me on #Bluesky instead. Thanks, all.