Under the icy shell of Jupiter's moon, Europa, lies a liquid water ocean and the tantalizing question of whether that ocean could be suitable to support life. NASA's Europa Clipper Mission is on its six-year journey to Europa to answer that very question. But while in route to the icy moon, the Europa Clipper spacecraft had the serendipitous opportunity to observe the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed through our Solar System between Clipper and the Sun.

In this presentation Dr. Tracy Becker of SWRi will discuss the science of what we know about 3I/ATLAS and what we are learning about it from missions like Europa Clipper. Dr. Becker is a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute specializing in UV observations of solar system objects.