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xkcd #3011: Europa Clipper (xkcd.com)
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They had BETTER make this a sample return mission.

https://explainxkcd.com/3011/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

The ExplainXKCD is great:

In truth, no such spoon is present on the probe, and Europa's icy crust is too thick to be penetrated by a spoon of such size.

The author is either being very tongue-in-cheek or very literal and humourless and I'm enjoying it both ways.