NASA spacecraft is preparing for a historic trip to Jupiter's icy moon

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NASA spacecraft is preparing for a historic trip to Jupiter's icy moon

Europa Clipper, the largest ship NASA has ever built for a planetary mission, is completing operational tests to begin its historic trip to Europa in October, one of Jupiter's best-known moons covered in a thick layer of ice and with an internal ocean twice as large as the Earth's oceans as a whole, where it is believed that “there are all the elements to support life”.