# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CvItiwlpZUu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8064841-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-07-25T21:52:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Take your name places. Faraway places.⁣
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Hitch a ride to Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons, aboard the Europa Clipper. Our robotic solar-powered spacecraft will conduct the first detailed studies of the intriguing world. Set to launch in October 2024, the probe will orbit Jupiter and intends to make nearly 50 flybys of Europa to determine whether there are places below its surface that could harbor the conditions to support life.⁣
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Join the mission and have your name - or even a a pet's name - engraved on the spacecraft before it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore the ocean world of Europa. Sign up to send your name today: go.nasa.gov/messageinabottle.⁣
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Image description: Icy moon Europa rises above Jupiter's cloud tops in this black-and-white image by New Horizon’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) taken at 11:48 UTC on Feb. 28, 2007, six hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. The moon is half lit from the right-hand side, seemingly balanced in the center of the sloping line made by the edge of the planet  that falls from the upper left to lower right of the frame. Captured for artistic, not scientific value, the image has been rotated so south is at the top. ⁣
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Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute⁣
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#NASA #Europa #SolarSystem #MessageInABottle #Jupiter #Space #SpaceCraft #Moons #Exploration #SendYourName

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jupiter, europa, nasa, space, moons, messageinabottle, spacecraft, exploration, solarsystem, sendyourname

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