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In this activity, students will build a spectrometer using basic materials to observe the light.
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A light bulb is visible on the left and a rainbow of colors is visible on the right.
Classroom Activity: Using Light to Study Planets
Explore Europa and the Europa Clipper spacecraft with an immersive AR experience.
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The Europa Clipper augmented reality experience layers Jupiter's moon Europa over any surface or background. The moon has options for the user to click on specific items to learn more information, such as the ingredients for life: water, energy, and chemistry. Following that, users an view a 3D model of the spacecraft and select individual instruments. Each section is narrated with audio.
ClipperAR: Europa Clipper Augmented Reality Experience
Build your own version of Europa Clipper, learning how each part of the spacecraft fits together as you go. 
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Advanced paper model of Europa Clipper available for download.
Europa Clipper Paper Model (Advanced)
Build your own version of Europa Clipper, learning how each part of the spacecraft fits together as you go. 
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Simple paper model of Europa Clipper available for download.
Europa Clipper Paper Model
A 3D model of Europa Clipper. 
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3D model of Europa Clipper
Europa Clipper Downloadable 3D Model
In this activity, students learn how light and energy are spread throughout space.
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Large solar panels for NASA's Juno spacecraft are visible in a clean room being deployed, surrounded by engineers in full body coveralls.
Classroom Activity: Inverse Square Law Demo
Students will explore the practical applications of exponents and division to investigate what it takes for NASA spacecraft to travel deep into the solar system using only solar power.
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NASA's Juno spacecraft is visible in front of Jupiter, which appears as a large planet looming in the distance. All three of Juno's solar arrays are visible
Classroom Activity: Calculating Solar Power in Space
Students use the fundamentals of density to propose a model for the interior structure of Europa.
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Two clear plastic clubs are visible on a table. The cup visible on the left has sediment on the bottom and water above it. The cup visible on the right has coarse rocks on the bottom and water and ice above it.
Discovering Alien Oceans: Density
Students work individually or collaboratively to build a spacecraft capable of exploring our solar system.
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A person holding playing cards over a game board.
Classroom Activity: NASA Space Voyagers Game
In this activity, students learn about different kinds of poems and find out how to create their own poetry inspired by space. 
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A blank notebook with white papers is visible open on a wooden table, with a pen laid over it.
Student Project: Write a Poem About Space
In this lab activity, students become materials scientists for a day.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft is visible in front of Saturn's moon Enceladus, which is seen as a white, frosty glove with plumes in the lower left of the moon. The space around it has a purple color.
Classroom Activity: Spacecraft Materials and the Chemistry of Space Exploration
Build your own Europa Clipper toy bricks model!
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An image shows an example of the Europa Clipper toy brick model.
Europa Clipper Toy Bricks Model
Students analyze simulated radar data to map surface elevations on a grid.
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A multi-layered surface is visible, composed of legos. The different colors relate to different surface elevations.
Classroom Activity: Mapping Alien Worlds
Print your own 3D scale model of Europa Clipper!
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Visual showing 3D model available for download.
Europa Clipper Scale Model - 3D Print
Students explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity.
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A person is seen holding two wires, one in each hand, and they are putting the wires into a clear plastic cup filled with water.
Discovering Alien Oceans: Magnetism
On its journey to the Jupiter system, NASA's Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth, using the gravity of each planet as a slingshot to boost the spacecraft's speed.
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A series of circles shows the winding path Europa Clipper will take to reach Jupiter and its moon, Europa. The Sun is shown as an orange dot in the center of the circle. A blue circle shows the spacecraft's path. The orbits of Earth, Mars, and Jupiter also are depicted by circles. The graphic is annotated with key events on the spacecraft's path.
Europa Clipper's Trajectory to Jupiter
NASA’s Europa Clipper is the first mission dedicated to studying Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, one of the most promising places in our solar system to find an environment suitable for life outside of ...
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Video explaining NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon, Europa.
Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean Moon (Mission Overview)
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This graphic shows the expected timeline of milestones immediately following lifto...
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A graphic with a purple curved line bending upward from the bottom left side of the page to show what happens to Europa Clipper after launch. Small illustrations show the rocket at launch, booster separation, stage separations, fairing jettison, parking orbit, rocket burns to boost the spaceship toward Jupiter, and finally separation of the spacecraft from the remaining piece of the launch vehicle. A table on the right side of the illustration gives times for each of the events depicted by the graphic.
Europa Clipper Launch Ascent Timeline
Depicted in this artist's concept against an illustration of a basketball court, Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission.
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A dark gray model of Europa Clipper hovers above a yellowish orange illustration of a basketball court.
Europa Clipper: NASA's Largest Planetary Spacecraft (Artist's Concept)
Scientists think that under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa a saltwater ocean exists that may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
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A side view of what Europa what look like if we could slice into it. There's beige, and white crust with reddish streaks and plumes erupting. Below the crust is a blue ocean on top of a brown crust with a reddish hotspot in the lower left corner.
Europa's Mysterious Interior (Artist's Concept)
NASA's Europa Clipper will study Jupiter's moon Europa up close. Europa orbits the gas giant within a band of powerful radiation generated by the planet's strong magnetic field. The relative intens...
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The orbits of Jupiter's four largest moons are shown with dark circles. A hazy, blueish Jupiter is in the center of the image. Red, gold, and beige bands around Jupiter illustrate the intensity of the planet's radiation bands. A blue ellipse shows the path Europa Clipper will take as it makes close passes over Europa.
Europa Clipper's Elliptical Orbit (Artist's Concept)
This artist's concept depicts the long, looping path NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will take to reach the Jupiter system. 
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An illustration with purple, white, red, and blue circles showing the path of the silver Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels to the Jupiter system. The blue circle shows the spacecraft's gravity assist at Earth, the red circle shows the spacecraft's path around Mars, and the purple path shows the spacecraft arriving at Jupiter. The spacecraft is shown on the white circle nearing Jupiter. In the center of the image is our Sun shown in yellowish orange.
Europa Clipper's Looping Journey to Jupiter (Artist's Concept)
Meet Dipak Srinivasan, a communications systems engineer for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
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Video about an engineer that works on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
NASA Job: Communications Systems Engineer — Behind the Spacecraft: Europa Clipper
Technicians prepare to install the high-gain antenna on NASA’s Europa Clipper at Kennedy Space Center on June 17, 2024.
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Workers in blue overalls and white head covers guide Europa Clipper's high gain antenna as it's installed on the spacecraft.
Europa Clipper High Gain Antenna Install
Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center guide Europa Clipper as a crane hoists the spacecraft on May 28, 2024.
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Workers in blue overalls and white head covers help guide Europa Clipper as a crane hoists it as part of prelaunch processing.
Europa Clipper Rotated at KSC