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Tipoffs for Tucson, Arizona (City) Newsletter for Tuesday October 29, 2024 ( 1 items )  

U of A Scientists Have Their Eyes on Europa, Jupiter's Mysterious, Icy Moon
TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: The largest spacecraft to ever explore the solar system blasted into the sky above NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Oct. 14. NASA's Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter and make 49 planned flybys of its moon Europa to study the moon's icy shell and help researchers better understand what lies beneath. Scientists at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Lab, which has  more