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Europa Clipper

On Oct. 10. 2024, the launch period opens for NASA's Europa Clipper to begin its journey to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. The robotic spacecraft will begin orbiting Jupiter in April 2030, and make dozens of close passes over Europa. If you’re interested in sharing content about Europa Clipper on social media, this is your toolkit.

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  1. 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
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    Express Your Space Style

    #RunwayToJupiter Style Challenge
    In this user-generated content campaign, space fans can show off outfits, makeup, nail art, and other creative expressions that capture Jupiter's swirls, Europa's icy glam, and the exploration of our solar system. Those who share their look by Oct. 10, 2024, have a chance to be featured by NASA.

    #RunwayToJupiter

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    For the Young Explorers

    Kids Art Challenge
    NASA's Space Place site for kids is challenging young explorers to think about and draw scenes about Europa, and the Europa Clipper mission. A few imaginative submissions will be featured during the launch, and on the NASA Space Place website.

    Participate in the NASA Space Place Art Challenge!

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    Attending Launch in Person

    NASA Social Event
    Social media influencers will be attending the launch in person, and posting about their experience for their unique audiences. Follow along here: @NASASocial and #NASASocial.

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    Online Launch Coverage

    NASA's Kennedy Space Center
    On launch day, we will provide live broadcast coverage on NASA+, NASA.gov, the NASA app, YouTube, and NASA's social media channels.

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Fun Fact

Europa may have twice as much water in its global ocean as Earth has in its ocean.

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The largest portion of the Europa's surface can be seen at the highest resolution from Galileo.

Why Europa?

Europa Clipper’s main science goal is to determine whether there are places below Europa's surface that could support life.

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A dark gray illustration of Europa Clipper sits on a bright blue basketball court.

Scale

Europa Clipper is the largest planetary exploration spacecraft NASA has ever built. Its solar panel arrays stretch about the length of a basketball court.

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An engineer wearing a blue protective head covering examines the gold-colored, cannister-shaped SUDA instrument as it sits on a metal table.

Europa Clipper's Gear

The spacecraft has nine powerful science instruments to study this mysterious world in detail as never seen before.

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An image of the Europa Clipper vault plate, highlighted from the upper left corner casting shadows that emphasize engraved waveforms emanating from a central point symbolizing the word 'water' in multiple languages. The waveforms present as audio frequency waves. The vault plate is metal silver and the engravings are black, set against a black background.

Cosmic Message

A “Message in a Bottle” rides aboard Europa Clipper as it travels from Earth to Europa, with good wishes from one ocean world to another.

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An artist's concept of NASA's Europa Clipper above Jupiter. The spacecraft's solar panels appear dark gray. Instruments can be seen protruding from the spacecraft. Jupiter has pale stripes of beige and reddish-brown.

Europa Clipper Orbiting Jupiter (Artist’s Concept)

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A dark Europa Clipper spacecraft orbits Jupiter with a bit of the surface of Europa showing below. Jupiter is in the background.

Europa Clipper in the Shadow of Jupiter (Artist's Concept)

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An artist's concept of Europa Clipper flying above Europa and in front of Jupiter.

Europa Clipper Over Europa (Artist's Concept)

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A spacecraft hovers over a reddish striped moon with planet Jupiter in the background.

Europa Clipper Over Europa (Artist's Concept)

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An illustration with purple, white, red, and blue circles showing the path of the silver Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels to the Jupiter system. The blue circle shows the spacecraft's gravity assist at Earth, the red circle shows the spacecraft's path around Mars, and the purple path shows the spacecraft arriving at Jupiter. The spacecraft is shown on the white circle nearing Jupiter. In the center of the image is our Sun shown in yellowish orange.

Europa Clipper’s Looping Journey to Jupiter (Artist’s Concept)

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The orbits of Jupiter's four largest moons are shown with dark circles. A hazy, blueish Jupiter is in the center of the image. Red, gold, and beige bands around Jupiter illustrate the intensity of the planet's radiation bands. A blue ellipse shows the path Europa Clipper will take as it makes close passes over Europa.

Europa Clipper's Elliptical Orbit (Artist's Concept)

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A side view of what Europa what look like if we could slice into it. There's beige, and white crust with reddish streaks and plumes erupting. Below the crust is a blue ocean on top of a brown crust with a reddish hotspot in the lower left corner.

Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)

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A gray model of Europa Clipper hovers above a yellowish orange illustration of a basketball court.

Europa Clipper: NASA’s Largest Planetary Spacecraft (Artist’s Concept)

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A dark gray illustration of Europa Clipper sits on a bright blue basketball court.

Europa Clipper: NASA’s Largest Planetary Spacecraft (Artist’s Concept - Blue)

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A graphic with a purple curved line bending upward from the bottom left side of the page to show what happens to Europa Clipper after launch. Small illustrations show the rocket at launch, booster separation, stage separations, fairing jettison, parking orbit, rocket burns to boost the spaceship toward Jupiter, and finally separation of the spacecraft from the remaining piece of the launch vehicle. A table on the right side of the illustration gives times for each of the events depicted by the graphic.

Europa Clipper Launch Ascent Timeline

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A series of circles shows the winding path Europa Clipper will take to reach Jupiter and its moon, Europa. The Sun is shown as an orange dot in the center of the circle. A blue circle shows the spacecraft's path. The orbits of Earth, Mars, and Jupiter also are depicted by circles. The graphic is annotated with key events on the spacecraft's path.

Europa Clipper's Trajectory to Jupiter

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Two workers in white protective clothing hold the triangular-shaped, silver-colored vault plate near the Europa Clipper spacecraft.

Europa Clipper Vault Plate Positioned for Installation

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Two views of Europa in different colors.

Galileo Images of Europa Taken on Sept. 7, 1996

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The largest portion of the Europa's surface can be seen at the highest resolution from Galileo.

Europa's Stunning Surface From Galileo in a Reprocessed Color View Made from Images Taken in the Late 1990s

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Europa rises above Jupiter in this image from New Horizons,

New Horizons Spies Europa Europa Hanging Above Jupiter's Clouds on Feb. 28, 2007

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Europa has reddish brown lines and patches in this image from Juno.

Juno Images Europa During a Flyby on Sept. 29, 2022

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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.

Europa Clipper Propellant Load Preparations

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Europa Clipper sits on a silver work stand with yellow and black caution tape around the edges. One of the spacecraft's two solar wings is featured prominently in this image. It's folded up against the spacecraft body. The solar array has a shiny black surface with lots of yellow dots and stripes. It reflects part of the room.

Europa Clipper Solar Array Wing Deployment (Second Wing)

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Workers in protective clothing and head covers sit and stand near the main body of Europa Clipper - a tall, silver cylinder with multiple orange and copper cables running between red-orange boxes on the exterior of the cynlinder.

Europa Clipper Takes Center Stage

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Workers in white protective clothing are on their backs and stomachs working underneath the main body of the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The spacecraft is mostly covered in protective materials but orange-red boxes and copper-colored wires are visible.

Europa Clipper Reaction Wheel Installation

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