June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... for life to get started, as is expected to be the case for the other ‘water worlds’, Enceladus, Ganymede and Europa. Future exploration Much has been gleaned from the missions to visit Titan so far, but to truly lift...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
..., kicking up some dust as they touch down, 52 years after the last time. A future lander on Jupiter’s moon Europa sometime in the 2030s. Extending borders The first missions for the pressurised rover will probably be driving...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... created using images obtained by the Galileo spacecraft in June 1996 (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The portrait of Callisto is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration Does Europe also want...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
.... At the opposite end of the Universe, in our own Solar System, JWST will turn to the icy moons Europa (Jupiter) and Enceladus (Saturn), studying them for signs of submerged hydrothermal vents as part of our hunt for...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... of $111 million, while planetary science would be cut by that amount. The proposal includes nearly $50 million for a Europa mission, far less than the $175 million appropriated in 2016. The proposed budget includes $217 million...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
... spectrometer will find itself on other missions that are currently considered for destinations such as Phobos and Europa.
