This is exciting! Glad it's NASA and not Musk
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An international team of scientists with Nasa, the Jet Propulsion Lab and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab will oversee the odyssey.
At a time when there is a space launch virtually every week, this mission promises something different, suggests Professor Fox-Powell.
“There's no profit being made. This is about exploration and curiosity, and pushing back the boundaries of our knowledge of our place in the universe,” he says.
At a time when there is a space launch virtually every week, this mission promises something different, suggests Professor Fox-Powell.
“There's no profit being made. This is about exploration and curiosity, and pushing back the boundaries of our knowledge of our place in the universe,” he says.
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"Europa Clipper will now travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Europa"
"Located 628 million kilometres (390 million miles) from Earth, Europa is just a bit bigger than our moon"
Does anyone know why Europa Clipper is traveling more than 4.6 times the distance of the distance to the moon to get to that moon?
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I asked a buddy mine who's into Astrology, he said it's because Europa is farther away than "our" moon.
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Oh, you think our moon is 628 million kilometres from Earth? Wrong.
Also, the article said Europa is 628 million kilometres from Earth, not our own moon.
How about you only post when you do not have something stupid to say?
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Ma'am, I need you to calm down.
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Anyone want to take a shot without making an ass of themselves?
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Frankly that question is a mess. I don't know what the poster is actually asking.
The distance of the distance?
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He hasn't got a clue, I think a couple neurons arced in his brain stem.
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I wonder if bald people get dementia at higher rates than people that have full heads of hair.
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Definitely seems to be a disturbing pattern, maybe that's why men's hair restoration products are so popular among the incels.
Maybe because they are doing a series of flybys. And perhaps they don't get to Europa as the crow flies in the first place. Are you really upset about this? You seem upset, dude.
It wasn't that hard to look up, you lazy %^$*.
The largest spacecraft NASA ever built for a mission headed to another planet, also is the first NASA mission dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) on a trajectory that will leverage the power of gravity assists, first to Mars in four months and then back to Earth for another gravity assist flyby in 2026. After it begins orbiting Jupiter in April 2030, the spacecraft will fly past Europa 49 times.
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This thread has been awesome.
It has shown that @Admin. thinks that whenever someone says "moon", he thinks they mean "the Earth's moon"...
And that @Admin. has no concept of how far away Earth's moon is from Earth....
And that @Lily cannot comprehend basic English....
And that while @LotusBud can understand basic English, she gets overly emotional over a simple question and misunderstands the intention of the question: I already knew the answer, you dope!!! Hahaha!! I was trying to bring something a little more interesting the the thread than just posting an article that nobody will really read anyways.
At least you actually answered the question, @LotusBud...I hope you learned something. But I actually doubt that you did.
It has shown that @Admin. thinks that whenever someone says "moon", he thinks they mean "the Earth's moon"...
And that @Admin. has no concept of how far away Earth's moon is from Earth....
And that @Lily cannot comprehend basic English....
And that while @LotusBud can understand basic English, she gets overly emotional over a simple question and misunderstands the intention of the question: I already knew the answer, you dope!!! Hahaha!! I was trying to bring something a little more interesting the the thread than just posting an article that nobody will really read anyways.
At least you actually answered the question, @LotusBud...I hope you learned something. But I actually doubt that you did.
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Sure.
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Like my Astrologist buddy said dipstick, Europa is farther away. Quit being retarded and bald.
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Impossible to do both. He must choose one.
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And, yes, @Lily was right. That right there ^^^^^^ is a very badly worded question. But I rewrote it in my head into the proper form: Does anyone know why the Europa Clipper will travel more than 4.6 times the distance between Earth and Europa on this voyage?
"...the distance of the distance to the moon to get to that moon" LMAO
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He's immature for a man of his age. He, like most conservatives, refuses to be accountable...even to himself.
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That is how I read it and why I responded as I did, and his rejection of my answer I must admit gave me pause.
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Is it him or is it Canadia?!
Plus he derailed this thread because he's too immature to simply talk about the mission. He has to turn it into a "gotcha" thread full of insults. So typically conservative.
Your answer was funny. He's too bitter to have a laugh.
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He wants to troll in the upper boards. That's frowned upon. He knows this, he just doesn't give a shit.
He's a cuck, as the kids used to say.
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I think he thought going beyond his abilities by financing beyond all his practical means a Corvette in Arctic White would turn him into something new and improved and more desirable to @Lily 'Cause every Lily crazy 'bout a vette-dressed man!
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