A spaceship is due to take off from Florida this morning for a mission to look for life on Jupiter.
The Europa Clipper is heading to Jupiter to study one of its moons - which is thought to have a huge underground frozen ocean, twice as big as earth.The spaceship will have to travel 1.8bn miles and it will take five and a half years to get there.It is not due to arrive into the planet's orbit until 2030. Located 628 million km from Earth, Europa is just a bit bigger than our moon.The U.S.
space agency's robotic solar-powered Europa Clipper spacecraft will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying nine scientific instruments. After a delay caused by Hurricane Milton, NASA set a aunch time for 12:06pm on Monday.
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