NASA’s Search For Life in a Radiation Death Zone | Europa Clipper

A massive thank you to Dr. Robert Pappalardo for his expertise and time.

A huge thank you to Gretchen McCartney and Cynthia B. Phillips at NASA JPL for their help.

For more on hydrothermal vents, check out NaturalWorldFacts on YouTube - @NaturalWorldFacts

00:00 ATTEMPT NO LANDING.
01:06 Jupiter’s deadly radiation belts
03:56 Europa’s secret
06:15 Why Europa isn’t completely frozen
08:03 Effects of tidal flexing
09:13 Why alien life could exist
10:39 How Europa Clipper detects signs of life
11:34 Why not Enceladus?
13:01 Europa Clipper’s instruments
15:13 Launch date and first results

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Adam Foreman, Albert Wenger, Anton Ragin, Ayush Agrawal, Balkrishna Heroor, Bertrand Serlet, Bill Linder, Blake Byers, Bruce, Dave Kircher, David Johnston, Evgeny Skvortsov, Garrett Mueller, Gnare, gpoly, I. H., Jack Cuprill, John H. Austin, Jr., john kiehl, Juan Benet, KeyWestr, Kirill Shore, Kyi, Lee Redden, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Matthias Wrobel, Meekay, meg noah, Michael Krugman, Orlando Bassotto, Paul Peijzel, Reed Spilmann, Richard Sundvall, Sam Lutfi, Shiroyasha, Tj Steyn, TTST, Ubiquity Ventures and wolfee

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Directed by Gregor Čavlović
Written by Gregor Čavlović and Derek Muller
Edited by Jack Saxon
Animated by Mike Radjabov, Fabio Albertelli, and Jack Saxon
Illustrated by Jakub Misiek
Filmed by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev and Gregor Čavlović
Additional research by Gabriel Bean
Produced by Derek Muller, Gregor Čavlović, Rob Beasley Spence, Tori Brittain, Luke Lewis, Barbara Abraul, Gabriel Bean, Petr Lebedev, and Casper Mebius

Thumbnail contributions by Ren Hurley, Peter Sheppard, and Jakub Misiek

Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images and Storyblocks
Music from Epidemic Sound

[mobilePCreviews]

Please never stop making these astrophysics videos, they're so good.

[Wunba]

The thought of a 100km deep ocean on another planet is terrifying and fascinating. Hope we get answers in our lifetime!

[teddyland]

Veritasium is fr one of the best channels on YouTube

[erikziak]

My deepest respect to all the scientists, engineers and technicians behind these projects. Such endeavors are the pinnacle of humble collective effort of thousands of talented people. I am not a part of the mechanism, but that does not mean I cannot share my enthusiasm and show support for projects of this kind.

[yeetzabois]

NOOO WAYYY! 3 Veritasium vids in about 2 weeks. Bro is cooking 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳

[TanayBheda]

You know it's a great day when Veritasium uploads

[Beautiful-ModelBarbara-Hut-sj]

This is my personal favorite astronomical subjects of conversation. The idea and possibility of life existing elsewhere in the solar system is so exciting.

[paulmichaelfreedman]

So cool, that you used clips from " 2010: the year we make contact" THE most underrated scifi sequel of all time.

[ann_onn]

I've spent 12 years sorta working on that question. I'm very happy you didn't give a definitive.
(Give me another few years, I might...)

[Pakishwan]

Veritasium pumping out videos like there no tomorrow, I’m not complaining.

[TheEret]

I'm currently in Florida as I have been invited by NASA to see the launch of Europa Clipper! I can't wait! :D

[chuckbatson]

Genuinely exciting. I can't wait to start seeing half-meter/pixel images of Europa 7 years from now!

[Defuzehaz]

This is one of the few channels that seriously delivers.. every time

[DyingVoiceDude]

from the thumbnail did not think this was a veritasium video... but it is! 😀

[EthelJung-jw]

I literally just finished reading the odyssey series a few days ago. Such an exciting time that we can see this happening in real life 🤩

[varshaith_]

Veritasium + Space is my favourite combo

[kevincampbell]

Literally never stop making videos, the world needs it

[bigtomar]

this is actually crazy groundbreaking, to think that if we do actually find life on a microbiological level on europa and that it could evolve one day into something more is absolutely mindboggling. it's like looking back through time to when life on earth was still in its early stages.

[josephmansfield]

The example with the blow torch was fire!🔥

[m]

So it takes 7 years to reach just Jupiter, god we are slow. Mad respect for the patience of scientists and engineers working on the project.