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Sure.

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Yeah.

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The Europa Clipper mission is launching
tomorrow to,

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go on a six year long journey to Europa

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to explore this unique ocean world
and try to understand

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its habitability.

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Yeah, so Europa is a really unique place.

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It is in many ways similar

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to things that we know here on Earth
and in other ways, very strange.

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So it has a global ocean.

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And we're used to understanding oceans, 
and it has a seafloor

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and it's covered in ice.

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These are all things
we're kind of familiar with.

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But what's really unique about Europa
is that ocean

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is more than 100km deep.

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Much deeper than anything
we've ever known here on Earth.

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And it's completely covered
by an ice shell that's up

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to tens of kilometers thick.

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So that's very foreign to us.

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And so we really want to go explore that.

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So Europa
Clipper mission is going to go to Europa

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with state of the art instrumentation
to try and revisit places

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we have seen before,
with other spacecraft and get new data

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at much higher resolution,
both exploring the surface

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and the subsurface to try and understand

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Europa better.

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The Europa

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Clipper spacecraft
has a suite of instruments

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that will explore, from its very surface
to its deep interior.

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Things like a camera, which we all know,
but spectrometers to understand

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its composition, magnetometers
to understand the magnetic field

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and what that tells us about the ocean
that's deep in its interior.

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And a radar to look at that ice shell,

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not just at the surface, but down below.

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My role is to study the surface

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geology of Europa
and also its interior structure.

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And in that role, I serve on
both the camera team

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for Europa Clipper and the radar team.

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I'm really most

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excited
about exploring the geology of Europa

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and trying to understand how that connects
to its potential for habitability.