It's time for a Europa Fest this week on planetary radio.

I'm Sarah Alahamed of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond.

We're now just two months away from the highly anticipated launch of NASA's Europa Clipper mission.

This week we're going to take a look back at over 20 years of planetary radio episodes about Europa

as we cheer on the scientists who have worked so hard to bring us to this moment.

That means you'll hear from me, but also Planetary Radio's creator and previous host, Matt Kaplan.

Then Bruce Betts, our chief scientist, will join me for what's up as I gear up for my trip to next week's NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Symposium. If you love Planetary Radio and want to stay informed about the latest space discoveries,

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Jupiter's icy moon Europa has captivated humanity for hundreds of years.

Interest in Europa dates back to 1610, when Italian astronomer Galileo Galileo

Galileo,

aimed his homemade telescope at Jupiter

and discovered the now famous Galilean moons,

Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

Centuries later, the Voyager spacecraft's image Europa during their flybys of the Jovian

system in 1979. Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 captured detailed images of that moon, revealing its smooth icy surface. Those

images were the ones that sparked the interest in Europa as a potentially habitable

world with a subsurface ocean. Since then we've had several missions to the Jovian system, each of them

providing even more insights into Jupiter and its moons. In 1989, NASA launched the Galileo

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