NASA eyes 3I/ATLAS with alien-hunting Clipper spacecraft
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Europa Clipper spends seven hours watching 3I/ATLAS as NASA studies elements in its surrounding plume
The NASA spacecraft, named the Europa Clipper, just spent seven hours observing a rare object orbiting our solar system named 3I/ATLAS. This object is unique since it originated from outside our solar system.
The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has made valuable observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which in July became the third officially recognized interstellar object to cross into our solar system.
NASA's Europa Clipper unexpectedly captured images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during a rare flyby near Earth, providing valuable scientific observations.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait of Mars — a cosmic photo op that helped scientists fine-tune an instrument destined to investigate whether Europa can support ...
What landing sites on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, would be the most ideal for searching for life on the small moon? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers led by the NASA Jet ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is currently on its long journey through the solar system, headed for Jupiter’s icy moon of Europa. There, it’s hoping to find whether Europa could ever have supported life — but before it arrives, it’s doing some ...
Future observations by NASA’s Europa Clipper mission could offer new insights into Europa’s subsurface oceans and potential habitability.