Science overview of the Europa clipper mission

RT Pappalardo, BJ Buratti, H Korth, DA Senske… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
The goal of NASA's Europa Clipper mission is to assess the habitability of Jupiter's moon
Europa. After entering Jupiter orbit in 2030, the flight system will collect science data while …

Investigating Europa's habitability with the Europa Clipper

SD Vance, KL Craft, E Shock, BE Schmidt… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
The habitability of Europa is a property within a system, which is driven by a multitude of
physical and chemical processes and is defined by many interdependent parameters, so …

Science goals and objectives for the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft relocatable lander

JW Barnes, EP Turtle, MG Trainer… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan in the mid-
2030s. Dragonfly's science themes include investigation of Titan's prebiotic chemistry …

NASA's Europa Clipper—A mission to a potentially habitable ocean world

SM Howell, RT Pappalardo - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
NASA’s Europa Clipper—a mission to a potentially habitable ocean world | Nature
Communications Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a …

How to identify cell material in a single ice grain emitted from Enceladus or Europa

F Klenner, J Bönigk, M Napoleoni, J Hillier… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Icy moons like Enceladus, and perhaps Europa, emit material sourced from their subsurface
oceans into space via plumes of ice grains and gas. Both moons are prime targets for …

Compositions and interior structures of the large moons of Uranus and implications for future spacecraft observations

J Castillo‐Rogez, B Weiss… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The five large moons of Uranus are important targets for future spacecraft missions. To
motivate and inform the exploration of these moons, we model their internal evolution …

Environments, needs and opportunities for future space photovoltaic power generation: A review

A Bermudez-Garcia, P Voarino, O Raccurt - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims to assess the potential and requirements of photovoltaic arrays to provide
energy for more than 30 mission types to explore 14 celestial bodies in our solar system …

Mass spectrometry and planetary exploration: A brief review and future projection

R Arevalo Jr, Z Ni, RM Danell - Journal of mass spectrometry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Since the inception of mass spectrometry more than a century ago, the field has matured as
analytical capabilities have progressed, instrument configurations multiplied, and …

The science case for a return to Enceladus

ML Cable, C Porco, CR Glein… - The planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The plume of Enceladus is unique in the solar system in providing direct access to fresh
material from an extraterrestrial subsurface ocean. The Cassini Mission, though not …

The likely thickness of Europa's icy shell

SM Howell - The Planetary Science Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The icy outer shell of Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to be geologically active, and
geological processes within the ice may be key to sustaining chemical disequilibria and …