Exploring our solar system
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Clippers on Europa, What's the Length of Time for That Message?
The length of time if Clippers on Europa and is sending the message to the United States, and you're just cating with you back on Earth, what's the length of time for that message? It depends on the exact alignment of Earth and Jupiter, but let's call it roughly 40 minutes. If someday we do land on Europa and that spacecraft has the intelligence to do autonomous sampling and to analyze what it's collecting and it does find evidence of life on Europa. The first thing to know that life exists beyond Earth will be that robotic vehicle.
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