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Investigating Europa’s Habitability with the Europa Clipper

Space Science Reviews, 2023
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 that its full characterization requires collaborative investigation.
S. Vance, K. L. Craft, Everett Shock, B. Schmidt, J. Lunine, Kevin P. Hand, W. B. McKinnon, E. Spiers, C. Chivers, J. Lawrence, N. Wolfenbarger, E. Leonard, Kirtland J. Robinson, M. Styczinski, D. Persaud, G. Steinbrügge, M. Zolotov, L. Quick, J. Scully, T. M. Becker, S. Howell, R. Clark, A. Dombard, C. Glein, O. Mousis, M. Sephton, J. Castillo-Rogez, F. Nimmo, Alfred S. McEwen, M. Gudipati, Insoo Jun, X. Jia, F. Postberg, K. Soderlund, C. M. Elder   +34 more
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Exploring the Interior of Europa with the Europa Clipper

Space Science Reviews, 2023
The Galileo mission to Jupiter revealed that Europa is an ocean world. The Galileo magnetometer experiment in particular provided strong evidence for a salty subsurface ocean beneath the ice shell, likely in contact with the rocky core.
J. H. Roberts, W. McKinnon, C. Elder, G. Tobie, J. Biersteker, D. Young, Ryan S. Park, G. Steinbrügge, F. Nimmo, S. Howell, J. Castillo‐Rogez, M. Cable, J. N. Abrahams, M. Bland, C. Chivers, C. Cochrane, A. Dombard, C. Ernst, A. Genova, C. Gerekos, C. Glein, C. Harris, H. Hay, P. Hayne, M. Hedman, H. Hussmann, X. Jia, K. Khurana, W. Kiefer, R. Kirk, M. Kivelson, J. Lawrence, E. Leonard, J. Lunine, E. Mazarico, T. McCord, A. McEwen, C. Paty, L. Quick, C. Raymond, K. Retherford, L. Roth, A. Rymer, J. Saur, K. Scanlan, Dustin M. Schroeder, D. Senske, Wencheng D. Shao, K. Soderlund, Elizabeth Spiers, M. Styczinski, P. Tortora, S. Vance, M. Villarreal, B. Weiss, J. Westlake, P. Withers, N. Wolfenbarger, B. Buratti, H. Korth, R. Pappalardo   +60 more
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The Europa Clipper Gravity and Radio Science Investigation

Space Science Reviews, 2023
The primary objective of the Europa Clipper mission is to assess the habitability of Europa, an overarching goal that rests on improving our understanding of Europa’s interior structure, composition, and geologic activity.
Erwan M Mazarico, Dustin Buccino, Andrew J Dombard   +2 more
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Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa

Nature Communications, 2022
Jupiter’s moon Europa is a prime candidate for extraterrestrial habitability in our solar system. The surface landforms of its ice shell express the subsurface structure, dynamics, and exchange governing this potential.
Riley Culberg, Dustin M Schroeder, Gregor Steinbrügge   +2 more
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Tidally Induced Magmatic Pulses on the Oceanic Floor of Jupiter's Moon Europa

Geophysical Research Letters, 2021
The habitability of Europa's subsurface ocean is conditioned by heat released from the deep interior and by intensity of magmatic activity. Here, we investigate the melting of the silicate mantle through time and its consequences for seafloor magmatism ...
Gabriel Tobie, Mathilde Kervazo, Mohit Melwani Daswani   +2 more
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The Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE). [PDF]

Space Sci Rev
The Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) is an infrared compositional instrument that will fly on NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to the Jupiter system.
Blaney DL, Hibbitts K, Diniega S, Davies AG, Clark RN, Green RO, Hedman M, Langevin Y, Lunine J, McCord TB, Murchie S, Paranicas C, Seelos F, Soderblom JM, Cable ML, Eckert R, Thompson DR, Trumbo SK, Bruce C, Lundeen SR, Bender HA, Helmlinger MC, Moore LB, Mouroulis P, Small Z, Tang H, Van Gorp B, Sullivan PW, Zareh S, Rodriquez JI, McKinley I, Hahn DV, Bowers M, Hourani R, Bryce BA, Nuding D, Bailey Z, Rettura A, Zarate ED.   +38 more
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Sodium chloride on the surface of Europa

Science Advances, 2019
Spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope show evidence for sodium chloride in material likely sourced from Europa’s interior. The potential habitability of Europa’s subsurface ocean depends on its chemical composition, which may be reflected in that of ...
Samantha K Trumbo, Michael E Brown, Kevin Hand   +2 more
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The distribution of CO2 on Europa indicates an internal source of carbon [PDF]

Science, 2023
Jupiter’s moon Europa has a subsurface ocean, the chemistry of which is largely unknown. Carbon dioxide (CO2) has previously been detected on the surface of Europa, but it was not possible to determine whether it originated from subsurface ocean ...
S. Trumbo, Michael E. Brown
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A New UV Spectral Feature on Europa: Confirmation of NaCl in Leading-hemisphere Chaos Terrain [PDF]

The Planetary Science Journal, 2022
Recent visible-wavelength observations of Europa’s surface obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revealed the presence of an absorption feature near 450 nm that appears spatially correlated with leading-hemisphere chaos terrain. This feature was
S. Trumbo, T. Becker, M. Brown, W. Denman, P. Molyneux, A. Hendrix, K. Retherford, L. Roth, J. Alday   +8 more
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Endogenous CO2 ice mixture on the surface of Europa and no detection of plume activity

Science, 2023
Jupiter’s moon Europa has a subsurface ocean beneath an icy crust. Conditions within the ocean are unknown, and it is unclear whether it is connected to the surface.
G. Villanueva, H. B. Hammel, S. N. Milam, S. Faggi, V. Kofman, L. Roth, K. Hand, L. Paganini, J. Stansberry, J. Spencer, S. Protopapa, G. Strazzulla, G. Cruz-Mermy, C. Glein, R. Cartwright, G. Liuzzi   +15 more
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