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Complete: Europa Clipper Vault and Its Twin
![Engineers and technicians in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California stand between the thick-walled aluminum vault and its duplicate that they helped build for the agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft.](/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBbjBGIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--a0b18e735b9f6de176fa81f7cf43c91b54b876cf/2-PIA24479-vault_w_team.jpg?disposition=inline)
Source:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published:
August 5, 2021
Engineers and technicians in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory display the thick-walled aluminum vault they helped build for the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The vault will protect the spacecraft’s electronics from Jupiter’s intense radiation. In the background is a duplicate vault.