Mike Malaska on Nostr: Europa Clipper is a mission to chatacterize the "habitability" of Europa. That is its ...
Europa Clipper is a mission to chatacterize the "habitability" of Europa. That is its goal. The team has been very very careful to not claim that it is looking for life. It is effectively being pitched as an early precursor #OceanWorld #astrobiology mission.
But...if life were there and evidence was detected by the spacecraft, what instruments might give the hint of a biosignature?
That might be the mass spectrometer MASPEX.
What could it detect?
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