Mars, Jupiter and NASA

NASA's Europa Clipper will fly close to Mars today on way to Jupiter's icy moon
"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa."
Europa Clipper gets a boost from Mars on its way to Jupiter
NASA’s Europa Clipper is using Mars and Earth’s gravity to travel efficiently to Jupiter. The spacecraft will study Europa’s ice and ocean.
Here's How NASA's Life-Hunting Spacecraft Will Use Mars to Slingshot to Jupiter
The first major event of Europa Clipper's journey to Jupiter takes place this weekend as a gravity assist maneuver around the Red Planet.
LA Times Today: NASA launches Europa Clipper to see if Jupiter’s icy moon has ingredients for life
It was a history making launch -- when NASA’s Europa Clipper embarked on its long five-year voyage to Jupiter. The $5 billion spacecraft is the largest ever built for a mission headed to another planet.
NASA Spacecraft Whipping Around Mars to Slingshot Itself Toward Jupiter's Mysterious Moon
NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's smallest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in October 2024,
NASA’s Europa Clipper to Fly Past Earth in 2026 on Its Way to Jupiter
The spacecraft, launched in 2024, will use gravitational assists from Mars and Earth to reach Jupiter’s moon Europa by 2030.
Webb exposes complex atmosphere of starless super-Jupiter
An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating ...
Old NASA mission reveals an unlikely world harbors an ocean
Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...
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Astrophysicists discover complex weather of starless “Super-Jupiter”
An international team of researchers has discovered that variations in brightness must be the result of complex weather, ...
NASA says 7 planets will align tonight. When's the last time this happened?
After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.
Callisto, the outermost of the 95 Jovian moons, first caught NASA’s attention back in the 1990s.
Dust off your old telescope on a clear night and look up. If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side ...
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Quad-Cities native, engineer contributes to NASA mission to Europa
Rayme Traub, a Sherrard native and NASA engineer, helped design the Europa Clipper probe. On Saturday, the probe will undergo ...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Snaps First Look at Upcoming Asteroid Target
The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in ...
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic 'inflation'
The mission—the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer; or SPHEREx—will ...