After some questioning on whether there'd be a NASA Europa mission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has recently confirmed that's where the next space probe will be headed, as the agency says that evidence suggests that there might be some form of life in the nearby moon.
Besides the recent confirmation of NASA's Europa mission, the agency has kept space fans on their toes for months with other discoveries, including the Dawn craft that's currently on Ceres, where it'll be researching the dwarf planet's geology as well as finding out the reasons behind its mysterious lights that can be seen from space.
Other landmarks besides the NASA Europa mission include the current effort to study the effects of being in space for a year in astronaut Scott Kelly, currently on mission at the International Space Station.
The NASA Europa mission will arrive at the sixth-largest moon in our Solar System, as well as the sixth closest to the planet Jupiter and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites, and there are plans to start human exploration of this celestial body within the next decade.
According to Forbes, engineers have already picked nine different science instruments for the NASA Europa Mission, a follow-up to the Galileo one that showed strong evidence that there might be life in the moon, after it was found that there might be an entire ocean beneath the moon's frozen crust.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that the research about Europa is led by researchers in Pasadena, California, and the instruments that will be used for the mission will include a magnetometer and spectrometer - all of which will be focused on finding out whether it'd be possible to sustain life there.
Space Flight Now reports that there's still no official date for the NASA Europa Mission, but it's been stated it'll happen sometime in the 2020s, when there will be a lot of studying on its surface's chemical composition and to see whether it's habitable.
