The Europa Clipper lifts off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, October 14, 2024. The clipper, engraved with Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s poem, “In Praise of Mystery,” will head to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in search of elements of life in sub-surface oceans. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
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