Upcoming Missions to Europa (All Photos Credit NASA and ESA)
Europa
Artist's Concept of Europa Water Vapor Plume
Artist Rendering of NASA Mission
NASA-Selected Science Instruments for Europa Mission • Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS) • Interior Characterization of Europa using MAGnetometry (ICEMAG) • Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) • Europa Imaging System (EIS) • Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON) • Europa THermal Emission Imaging System (E-THEMIS) • MAss SPectrometer for Planetary EXploration/Europa (MASPEX) • Ultraviolet Spectrograph/Europa (UVS) • SUrface Dust Mass Analyzer (SUDA)
Artist Concept of ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer)
ESA-Selected Science Instruments for Juice Mission JANUS – Optical Camera system MAJIS - Moons and Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer UVS - UV imaging Spectrograph SWI - Sub-millimeter Atmospheric Wave Instrument GALA - GAnymede Laser Altimeter RIME - Radar for Icy Moons Exploration J-MAG - A Magnetometer for JUICE PEP - Particle Environment Plasma Package RPWI - Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation 3 GM - Gravity & Geophysics of Jupiter and Galilean Moons - Radio science package • PRIDE - Planetary Radio Interferometer & Doppler Experiment • • •