13 March 2017
Europa Clipper: the official name of NASA's mission to Europa
... have already been selected for the craft, such as cameras and spectrometers to produce high-resolution images of Europa’s surface to determine its composition, along with a magnetometer to measure the strength and direction of the moon’s magnetic...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
... the MAG data acquired on Galileo’s closest encounter with Europa is fully consistent with the perturbations expected if the spacecraft... in September, 2003 to prevent an unwanted impact with Europa, but the legacy of its treasure-trove of data ...
29 January 2021
NASA is looking at commercial options to launch its Europa Clipper
...slipped to 2024, US Congress had previously mandated by law that Europa Clipper’s orbiter and a follow-up lander mission had to be ...million for mission system impact and a change in cruise time to Europa from 2.4 to 3 years. Funds to the tune of $250 ...
15 April 2016
Shifting ice on Europa could be warmer than anticipated
... that tidal dissipation could create far more heat in Europa's ice than scientists had previously assumed. The work ... of heat fluxes needed to capture those surface dynamics seen on Europa. So McCarthy, along with Reid Cooper, professor of Earth, ...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...substitute for the larger ‘flagship’ missions like Curiosity or Europa Clipper. Destinations So where can we reasonably expect to ...that have the potential to enhance the science achieved at Europa. These cubesats would be carried to Jupiter by the ...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
...found additional evidence of plumes erupting from Jupiter's moon Europa, these results are tantalising close to answering whether ...crust and warming the surrounding surface. Hopefully, NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which is planned for launch in the...
