But the sturdy plate — inscribed with far more than the poignant words of Limón — also has a twin that sits on our planet. The replica is at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California, and the simple fact that it exists invites us to ponder the peculiar gap between art and science, or lack thereof.

Managed by JPL scientists and technicians, it will take Europa Clipper 5 1/2 years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet.

Taranaki man fascinated with space exploration is fulfilling a childhood dream, as part of the Europa Clipper mission, which launched a space probe on 14 October, to investigate whether Jupiter’s icy moon has the conditions for life to exist.

A massive NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust and determine whether conditions there could support life.

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of liquid water beneath.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a nearly six-year mission to Jupiter to see if it's possible to sustain life that far into space.

The goal for Europa Clipper, which will reach Jupiter's orbit in 2030, is to see if life is possible on Jupiter's moon Europa.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly to the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, Europa. It is expected to arrive at its destination by 2030. When it does, it will have flown 1.8 billion miles (2.

The spacecraft will be NASA's first dedicated to studying a distant ice-covered moon in our solar system to determine whether it could be habitable for life.