NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the scientific objectives of the Europa Clipper mission.

Participants include:
• Gina DiBraccio, acting director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
• Robert Pappalardo, project scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL
• Haje Korth, deputy project scientist, Europa Clipper, Applied Physics Laboratory
• Cynthia Phillips, project staff scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL

Beyond Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered one of the solar system’s most promising potentially habitable environments. After an approximately 1.8-billion-mile journey, Europa Clipper will enter orbit around Jupiter in April 2030, where the spacecraft will conduct a detailed survey of Europa to determine whether the icy world could have conditions suitable for life. Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. It carries a suite of nine instruments along with a gravity experiment that will investigate an ocean beneath Europa’s surface, which scientists believe contains twice as much liquid water as Earth’s oceans.