NASA announces plans to explore Jupiter's Moon

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced on May 26 that it has selected 9 scientific devices for Jupiter's moon exploration mission in hopes of gathering more evidence. This place has ideal elements suitable for life.

Plan to explore the moon of Jupiter

Under the plan to be deployed in 2022 , NASA will bring a solar-powered spacecraft into Jupiter's orbit to make about 45 remote-sensing flights near Europa in 3 years. Thanks to this method, scientists can explore the entire surface of the Moon Europa from space.

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The devices used for this mission include camcorders and spectrometers to capture clear images of the Europa surface as well as determine the composition of this moon; a radar to determine the thickness of the ice surface on Europa and look for lakes under ice layers similar to Antarctica.

In addition, astronomers will also use a magnetometer to measure the strength and direction of Europa's electromagnetic field to determine the depth and salinity of the oceans, while other scientific devices. It is the task of searching for evidence of water and molecules in the moon's atmosphere.

Talking to reporters, scientist Curt Niebur, one of NASA's Europa program program managers, said the plan was "a big step " in the search for ocean-supporting life on this moon.

He also expressed confidence that with the help of modern scientific equipment, this mission will help discover new discoveries about Jupiter 's moon . Currently, NASA has proposed to invest about $ 30 million in the 2016 fiscal budget for studying Europa. The total cost for the entire project is estimated to be up to 2 billion USD.

Located 624 million kilometers from Earth, Europa is an ice sphere containing a giant giant below the surface. It's so big that scientists think that the liquid water this moon possesses could be double or triple that of the Earth.

Based on the fact that life has grown from oceans on Earth, scientists hope Europa is more likely to form life than Earth's closest neighbor, Mars .