NASA’s Europa mission is a homecoming for one planetary astronomer
Bonnie Buratti will search for signs of habitability on Jupiter’s icy moon
In its first spacecraft portraits, Jupiter’s moon Europa (seen here in a 1979 photo from Voyager 2, reprocessed in 2010) looked like a cracked egg. Now, a new spacecraft is going to get a better view of what’s under its shell.
JPL/NASA, Ted Stryk (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)