NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released this
video on NASA's planned mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. It discusses the space agency's plan to send a spacecraft to conduct flybys of the moon to better understand its composition, its presumed liquid water oceans, and its potential for life. Unlike other missions that orbit the object being observed, the radiation around the moon would soon cook any nearby spacecraft. So instead NASA hopes that multiple flybys, and even a potential fly-through of any plumes, will provide us with the necessary information to make some solid determinations about Europa. It is an ambitious plan, but as spacecraft such as Galileo, Voyager, Cassini, New Horizons, and others have proven, we are up to the task.
