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These 15 frames show the great variety of surface features on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

Researchers at Langley prepare to move the high gain antenna for  into the Experimental Test Range at the NASA Langley Research Center. 

The image on the left shows a region of Europa's crust made up of blocks which are thought to have broken apart and "rafted" into new positions. 

In this lab activity, students become materials scientists for a day.

This image of Europa, smallest of Jupiter's four Galilean satellites, was acquired by Voyager 2 on July 9, 1979

This complex terrain on Jupiter's moon, Europa, shows an area centered at 8 degrees north latitude, 275.4 degrees west longitude, in the trailing hemisphere.

A plasma instrument sensor assembly loaded into a thermal vacuum chamber.

Europa Clipper's propulsion module arrives in its shipping container in the cleanroom receiving bay at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

A newly discovered impact crater can be seen just right of the center of this image of Jupiter's moon Europa returned by NASA's Galileo spacecraft camera. The crater is about 18.5 miles (30 kilomet...

Workers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California deploy Europa Clipper’s magnetometer boom.

The animation illustrates the magnetic connection between Europa’s induced magnetic field and the magnetic field lines of Jupiter’s own powerful magnetic field.

One moment in an ancient, orbital dance is caught in this color picture taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 7, 2000, just as two of Jupiter's four major moons, Europa and Callisto, were near...

A 3D model of the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE), a spectrometry instrument on Europa Clipper. 

One of Europa Clipper’s star tracker optical heads in a JPL clean room for testing.

Europa Clipper's propulsion module arrives in a shipping container at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

These images reveal the dramatic topography of Europa's icy crust.

The inward-facing side of the Europa Clipper vault plate has drawings, and a microchip engraved with more than 2.6 million names.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Europa hanging above Jupiter's cloud tops.

This is a high resolution picture of Jupiter's moon Europa. The area shown is about 5.9 by 9.9 miles (9.6 by 16 kilometers) and the smallest visible feature is about the size of a football field.

Europa Clipper’s dust analyzer shown in a clean room.

This animation segment shows the deployment of NASA’s Europa Clipper REASON instrument after launch.

Animation sequences showing NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft leaving Earth, deploying in space, journeying to the Jupiter system, and performing multiple flybys of Europa. 

The Europa Clipper Solar Array Mechanical Simulator is shown installed on the spacecraft’s propulsion module.

Does life exist beyond Earth? Ocean worlds like Europa could be habitable and possibly even inhabited. 

Europa Clipper’s surface dust analyzer instrument is unboxed following delivery to JPL in September 2022.