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 …

Exploring the composition of Europa with the upcoming Europa Clipper mission

TM Becker, MY Zolotov, MS Gudipati… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, harbors a subsurface liquid water ocean; the prospect of this
ocean being habitable motivates further exploration of the moon with the upcoming NASA …

Planned geological investigations of the Europa Clipper Mission

IJ Daubar, AG Hayes, GC Collins, KL Craft… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Geological investigations planned for the Europa Clipper mission will examine the
formation, evolution, and expression of geomorphic structures found on the surface …

The Europa imaging system (EIS) investigation

EP Turtle, AS McEwen, GW Patterson, CM Ernst… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Europa Imaging System (EIS) consists of a Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC) and a
Wide-Angle Camera (WAC) that are designed to work together to address high-priority …

Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS)

KD Retherford, TM Becker, GR Gladstone… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
NASA's Europa Clipper mission is designed to provide a diversity of measurements to
further our understanding of the potential habitability of this intriguing ocean world. The …

Identifying signatures of past and present cryovolcanism on Europa

E Lesage, SM Howell, M Neveu, JW Miller… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Europa, the most visibly active icy moon of Jupiter, is a prime target for the search for life in
the outer solar system. Two spacecraft missions, Europa Clipper from the National …

Radar characterization of salt layers in Europa's ice shell as a window into critical ice‐ocean exchange processes

NS Wolfenbarger, DD Blankenship… - Geophysical …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The potential habitability of Jupiter's moon Europa has motivated two missions: NASA's
Europa Clipper and ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE). Both missions are equipped …

Europa Clipper flight system overview

JM Srinivasan, C Barltrop, S Berman, S Bushman… - Space Science …, 2025 - Springer
NASA's Europa Clipper mission is the first focused exploration of an ocean world, with the
main goal of assessing the habitability of Jupiter's moon Europa. After entering Jupiter orbit …

Constraining the thickness of the conductive portion of Europa's ice shell using sparse radar echoes

DM Schroeder, NS Wolfenbarger… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ice penetrating radar sounding is the primary geophysical technique for imaging the
subsurface of planetary ice shells and has the potential to directly detect the ice–ocean …