Europa Clipper Spots Magnetic Clues to Activity Beneath Europa’s Ice
NASA’s Europa Clipper has returned its first scientific data from a recent flyby of Jupiter’s moon Europa, and the early results are drawing attention. Instruments aboard the spacecraft detected unexpected fluctuations in Europa’s magnetic field, patterns that scientists say may point to active processes beneath the moon’s icy crust. Researchers believe the signatures could be linked to a global subsurface ocean…