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As it soared past Mars in March, NASA's Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish ...
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Europa Clipper’s Radar Triumph: What 60GB of Mars Data Reveals About Probing Alien Oceans
In the universe of planetary exploration, some experiments are so bold that even Earth’s biggest laboratories can’t hold them literally. As NASA’s Europa Clipper flew by Mars in March 2025, it wasn’t ...
The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory.
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Europa Clipper’s Mars Flyby Reveals the Hidden Engineering Triumphs Behind Its Ice-Penetrating Radar
A radar on a spacecraft, intended to investigate the mystery of an extraterrestrial ocean, was never completely tested in Earthly chambers because there wasn’t a chamber large enough on our planet.
Europa Clipper's radar instrument received echoes of its very-high-frequency radar signals that bounced off Mars and were ...
American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures ...
NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.
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Space on MSNAlien life on Mars or Europa could survive off cosmic rays instead of the sun, scientists suggest
Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex ...
From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...
NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1.
While Europa Clipper flew past Mars on March 1, the thousands of grayscale images it obtained weren’t transmitted to Earth until May 5. After running the images through specialized software that ...
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