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Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing ... The name hearkens to the swift sailing ships of centuries past The roundabout trip to Jupiter ...

The Clipper mission will be the first NASA mission dedicated to studying an ocean world. Andrea Blake is this year's NASA Space Grant intern.

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