FILE - This Feb. 13, 1979 photo released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 22, 1979 shows the planet Jupiter and two of its moons, Io, left, and Europa, center. The Voyager 1 spacecraft was about 12.4 million miles from Jupiter when the photo was made. NASA said Tuesday, March 4, 2014 it is making preparations to plan a robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be life. The space agency set aside $15 million in its 2015 budget proposal to start planning a mission to Europa. No details were released but NASA chief financial officer Elizabeth Robinson said Tuesday that it would be launched in the mid-2020s. (AP Photo/NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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