Nasa scientists plan to send a robot to Europa, Jupiter’s moon, to see if it could have life under its crust

Nasa hopes to send a robot to one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, by the mid-2020s.

The agency has laid out new plans for the mission, which it calls the Europa Clipper, and has asked US authorities for an extra $30 million (£20 million) to fund the project. It has already been allocated $100 million by Congress.

Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hopes that it will be able to send the robot in the next decade or so, after 15 years spent exploring concepts for the ship. Many of the ideas were too big or too expensive, but Nasa believes that it has found the right model .... http://www.independent.co.uk