A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust and determine whether conditions there could support life. Scientists are pretty sure there’s a vast hidden ocean at Europa, making the moon one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Due to launch this month from Florida, Europa Clipper won’t search for life. Instead, it will look for the ingredients necessary for life to exist. It will take 5 1/2 years for the spacecraft to get there.

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface

With a spacecraft launching soon, the mission will try to answer the question of whether there are ingredients suitable for life in the ocean below Europa’s

A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

Europa Clipper will launch on Thursday, Oct. 10, atop a SpaceX rocket to begin a 1.8-billion-mile journey to the Jovian System to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.