Europa Clipper Completes First Deep Space Radar Test at Mars

Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft flying past the red planet Mars, with large solar panels extended and radar antennas visible.

NASA’s interplanetary mission Europa Clipper has recently crossed an important milestone. On March 1, while passing near Mars, this spacecraft successfully tested its powerful radar instrument REASON (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface) in space for the first time. This was a test that was not possible to do on Earth. Now … Read more