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The mission is the latest step in a 400-year-old endeavor to understand Jupiter and its distant moons.
Thought to have twice as much water as Earth, Europa has intrigued scientists ever since Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed Jupiter's four largest moons for the first time in 1610.