NASA is planning to send a daring
robotic mission
by 2025 to Jupiter's watery moon Europa
- one of the best bets for alien life beyond Earth in our solar system.
The
American space agency has set aside USD 15 million in its 2015 budget proposal
to start planning a mission to Europa. NASA's chief financial officer,
Elizabeth Robinson, was quoted by 'The Times' as saying that the Europa mission
would be launched in the mid-2020s.
Europa is one of the solar system's most
mysterious moons. There may be a vast ocean beneath Europa's icy crust, with
more water in it than exists on all of Earth. A little bit of that water may be
erupting from geysers near the Europa's south pole, sending plumes 200
kilometres into the air, a recent study has found.
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