We don’t want to accidentally crash into it,” Juno mission principal investigator Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, told HuffPost. An enhanced color view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Bolton might consider trying to extend the mission life of Juno beyond its current 20-month planned probe of Jupiter. And that’s what the Europa mission launching in 2022 is going to find out.” But one of NASA’s big concerns is that something could go wrong with the Juno mission that might cause a calamity on Europa. But why all this concern about anything falling or crashing into this little Jupiter moon?

Source: Huffington Post July 13, 2016 01:18 UTC