Europa Clipper is soon to be on its was to the outer solar system to study one of Jupiter's most interesting moons. In addition to the really awesome science it will do ('sniffing' gases with a mass spectrometer to find out what they're made of?!? How cool is that??), the spacecraft will carry a <a href="https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"message in a bottle" etched with your names </a>and a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. Icy moons, science, and poetry, all our favorite things!

Thanks to our guest on this episode:

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<li>Dr. Bob Pappalardo, JPL, Project Scientist-Europa Clipper</li>
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