The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory.

As it soared past Mars in March, NASA's Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.

Europa Clipper's radar instrument received echoes of its very-high-frequency radar signals that bounced off Mars and were ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

We got everything out of the flyby that we dreamed,” said Don Blankenship, NASA’s REASON radar principal investigator, as ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured a thermal image of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby, testing instruments ahead of its mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa.

NASA has confirmed that the radar instrument aboard the Europa Clipper spacecraft performed flawlessly during its flyby of ...

While Europa Clipper flew past Mars on March 1, the thousands of grayscale images it obtained weren’t transmitted to Earth until May 5. After running the images through specialized software that ...

NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures ...

From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...