Launch of Europa Clipper
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Watch Online
How to watch a replay of the launch of Europa Clipper online.
How to Watch![Europa Clipper lifts off from the launch pad atop a white rocket with two smaller side boosters. A bright, white and orange pillar of fire shoots from the bottom of the rocket stack. White smoke billows around the launch pad. The SpaceX fixed service structure is to the left of the rocket. A white water tower with the SpaceX logo is to the right. Farther right is a small, round, gray structure.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/europa-clipper-as-it-lifts-off.jpg?w=1024)
Launch Party
Get ready to experience a once-in-a-lifetime event as NASA's Europa Clipper mission takes flight! This historic mission will explore Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, and you’re invited to host your very own watch party to share the excitement with friends, family, and fellow space enthusiasts. We’ve got everything you need to make your launch celebration out of this world.
Go to Our Launch Party Hub![A bright blue graphic with images cut in to promote NASA's Social Media Toolkit for the launch of Europa Clipper. It has seven small images related to the launch. It has the words Join Our Social Space in white lettering.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/social-toolkit-collage.jpg?w=1024)
Be Our Virtual Guest
Get curated mission resources, and a commemorative stamp for your virtual guest passport
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Calling All Kids: Explore Europa Through Art
Join the NASA Space Place art challenge and imagine what's beneath Europa’s icy surface. Submit artwork by Oct. 31, 2024, for a chance to be featured by NASA!
Join the Space Place Art Challenge![An illustration promoting NASA Kids Art Challenge. It has purple background with lighter stellar clouds that are gold and blue. An illustration of Jupiter is up top and center. Europa is below, and to the left of Jupiter. Both the planet and the moon are colored in browns, with red and a bit of beige and blue. The illustration has the words "Europa Kids Art Challenge" in white letters to the right of the illustration.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/kids-art-challenge-1.jpg?w=1024)
#RunwayToJupiter Style Challenge
Express your space style! Show off your outfits, makeup looks, nail art, and other creative expressions inspired by Jupiter's swirls, Europa's icy glam, and the exploration of the planets. Share a picture or video of your custom look with the hashtag #RunwayToJupiter for a chance to be featured on NASA’s website and social media channels.
How to Participate![An illustration calling for participation in a NASA public engagement activity for the Europa Clipper launch. This illustration has a pale blue background with outlines of narrow stars drawn in red, gold, and blue. It says Share Your Space Style, #RunwayToJupiter NASA Style Challenge. Enter by Oct. 10, 2024](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/runway-to-jupiter-share-your-space-style.png?w=1024)
Europa Clipper Roadshow
The “Voyage of Europa Clipper” made its way to five unique locations across the country in the run up to the October 2024 launch.
Learn More![Europa Clipper Roadshow is set up in a room at the St. Louis Aquarium.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img-8612-e1720453422708.jpg?w=1024)
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Europa Up Close
Europa shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust. In fact, it could have all the ingredients needed for life as we know it. NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will perform dozens of close flybys of Europa to determine whether there are places below the surface that could support life. Take an in-depth look at Jupiter's icy moon.
Read More![A view of Europa showing most of one side of the moon. The moon is gray with reddish bands running across it.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/pia25695-europa-junocam-16x9-1.jpg?w=1024)
Image processing: Kevin M. Gill CC BY 3.0
Europa Clipper Augmented Reality Experience
Explore Jupiter’s moon Europa and the Europa Clipper spacecraft like never before in the immersive ClipperAR (augmented reality) experience. You can visit Europa, peer through its layers, and learn about Europa’s ingredients for life. After that, you can view the Europa Clipper spacecraft and learn about its individual instruments.
Read More![A banner showing Jupiter with Europa Clipper orbiting and white text over the image promoting Clipper AR.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/clipperar-banner.webp?w=1000)
Eyes on Europa Clipper
Follow Europa Clipper's journey in NASA's Eyes. The program is a 3D visualization that allows you to explore and understand real NASA data and imagery in a fun and interactive way. Eyes runs in a web browser, so any device with an internet connection and a browser can run the application.
Read More![An illustration of Europa Clipper in the darkness of space.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/nasa-eyes-europa-clipper.jpg?w=1024)
Sign Up for Mission Updates
Get notifications about the Europa Clipper mission, and discover the latest news on Earth, the Solar System, and beyond from NASA in your inbox.
Subscribe![The Europa Clipper spacecraft sits on a large, wheeled work platform. It high silver high gain antenna is facing toward us. Its solar panels are folded up and covered in red protective shields with Airbus printed on them. Several workers in blue jumpsuits are nearby.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ksc-20240911-ph-kls01-0006large.jpg?w=1024)
Message in a Bottle
The deadline has passed to submit your name to fly on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft alongside a message by the U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. However, there are still ways to stay involved.
Join Us about Message in a Bottle![An illustration of a giant bottle with a message inside. The bottle is in front of Jupiter with Europa's ocean below it. The Europa Clipper spacecraft is up over the bottle.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/europa-clipper-messag-ein-a-bottle-1600x900-1-jpg.webp?w=1600)
Who's On Board?
Explore our participation map to see where people around the world have signed their name to Europa Clipper’s Message in a Bottle.
View the Map![A map in shades of blue showing the continents of Earth.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/participation-map-16x9-1.jpg?w=1024)
Check In
Time has run out to send your name. If you signed on during the campaign, check in to retrieve and share your customized Message in a Bottle artwork.
Read More![An illustration of a giant bottle with a message inside. The bottle is in front of Jupiter with Europa's ocean below it. The Europa Clipper spacecraft is up over the bottle.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/europa-clipper-messag-ein-a-bottle-1600x900-1-jpg.webp?w=1024)
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