Ocean Worlds Exploration Program
The Ocean Worlds Exploration Program (OWEP) is a NASA program to explore ocean worlds in the outer Solar System that could possess subsurface oceans to assess their habitability and to seek biosignatures of simple extraterrestrial life.
Two possible models of Europa
Artist's impression of possible hydrothermal activity on Enceladus's ocean floor
Europa Clipper is a space probe in development by NASA. Planned for launch in October 2024, the spacecraft is being developed to study the Galilean moon Europa through a series of flybys while in orbit around Jupiter. It is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission.
The flybys of Europa by a previous mission collected the data for this mosaic.
NASA’s Europa Clipper, with all of its instruments installed, is visible in the clean room of High Bay 1 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The photo composite of suspected water plumes on Europa
The concept to achieve global-regional coverage of Europa during successive flybys