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Europa Clipper will make dozens of close passes

The 2024 launch heads for an icy moon and a survey of its ocean Europa Clipper launched in October 2024 and arrives at Jupiter in 2030. It will make about 49 flybys of Europa, using radar, cameras and a mass spectrometer to probe the ice shell and the salty ocean beneath. The spacecraft carries the largest solar arrays ever flown on a planetary mission, needed because sunlight at Jupiter is weak. It sits in Mondo's space collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The 2024 launch heads for an icy moon and a survey of its ocean. The figure is taken from NASA Science, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a space fact?: Yes. It sits on the Space shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.