Europa is one of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, known as the Galilean Satellites, in honor of its discoverer Galileo Galilei, who discovered them by looking through his telescope in the year 1610.
When Galileo discovered these satellites, he did not imagine that 400 years later, enormous water reserves would be discovered in this place. Today, it is known that Europa is one of the bodies with the most significant amount of water in the solar system and that it could even have all the conditions to host living beings.
But... If it's such an essential place for the search for extraterrestrial life, why haven't we been able to send a human-crewed spacecraft to explore this frozen world better?
Why is it so hard to get to Europe?
Stay with us to find out!
First approach
On March 2, 1972, the Pioneer 10 space exploration probe was launched from Cape Canaveral. This spacecraft was part of a NASA program that aimed to take advantage of an alignment gap of the outer planets to explore the solar system's gas giant planets.
The Great Find
However, the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes were much more fruitful than initially estimated. The Voyager probes would give us the probes that could best reveal the secrets of the Jovian system.
In the 1979s, after the apparent success of the Pioneer probes, NASA proceeded to
A new goal
The two groups of probes, Pioneer and Voyager, initially aimed to take advantage of the approaching gap between the gaseous planets to explore them all and, in the process, take advantage of the momentum they would obtain to leave the solar system.
But during those trips, images and data from scientific instruments showed that Europa had a much cleaner surface than expected, meaning that it didn't have many impact craters.
2016.
The best-case scenario
As you can see, a trip to the Moon Europa would not be accessible with modern technology. To undertake such a long journey, it would be best if astronauts could make brief stops at other places, such as the Moon, Mars, and Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt.
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00:00 Intro
1:00 First approach
3:00 The Great Find
5:09 A new Goal
6:43 a very long Journey
9:28 The best-case scenario
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