The Solar Panels Are Big, Right?

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Jupiter is five times farther away than Earth. The solar panels would stretch from the toe to the crown of the Statue of Liberty. If there's stuff spewing out from the surface, we're going to analyze that with a mask. We've been working on the technology to make it possible to go land on a moon of Jupiter.

Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.

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Photo Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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