the National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) confirmed their willingness to act on finding traces of life on the moon of Jupiter — Europe. The management announced through its official website.

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the National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) confirmed their willingness to act on finding traces of life on the moon of Jupiter — Europe. The management announced through its official website.

"In an attempt to find traces of life outside the Earth today we take the exciting step from concept to practical mission" says John Grunsfeld, assistant administrator office of scientific NASA in Washington. — a Study of Europe during the last two decades has provided tantalizing evidence, and now is the time to find the answers to some of the deepest human questions."

According to the approved plan for further practical study of Europe, NASA in 2020 will send to the orbit of Jupiter special space ship. Initially, scientists planned to send lander on Europe itself, but recently this idea was rejected. The researchers also rejected the idea of sending the ship into orbit of the satellite, because beating on it by the radiation from Jupiter would have killed any equipment. Thus, all observations will be held from the orbit of the largest planet in the Solar system.

it is Assumed that the space station will rotate around Jupiter for three years, during this time 45 time going to Europe to close the distance. On the ship, with nine major appliances, including cameras, spectrometers, magnetometers and radars that can determine the thickness of the ice shell of the satellite, and to detect under-ice oceans in it — it is there and can hide the simplest living organisms. It is not excluded that in case of detection of life on the "moon of Jupiter" she will have no terrestrial counterparts.

In honor of the beginning of the active phase of the mission NASA launched the theme on YouTube video: