The initiative does not have the stated objective of finding European life, but it will attempt to characterize the subsurface ocean and its contents in detail, confirming its habitability. One of the most exciting prospects is the study of water plumes that can be ejected through cracks in the ice crust, being exposed to space. Clipper will try to fly over them, similar to what the Cassini probe did with Saturn's icy moon Enceladus between 2005 and 2015 - another potential habitable environment (at least for microorganisms) in the Solar System.