Potential Landing Sites: A Comprehensive Reconnaissance Assessment of the Europa Clipper Trajectory

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will explore Jupiter’s icy moon via multiple flybys in the early 2030s. The ocean world Europa is one of the most promising locations to search for life elsewhere in the solar system, and thus Europa Clipper’s main goal is to characterize Europa’s habitability. In the f...

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Published in:The Planetary Science Journal
Main Authors: Jennifer E. C. Scully, Ines Belgacem, Rutu Parekh, Cyril Grima, Cynthia B. Phillips, Kathleen L. Craft, Geoffrey C. Collins, Charlie Detelich, Erin J. Leonard, Ishan Mishra, G. Wesley Patterson, Louise M. Prockter, Angela M. Stickle, Sarah S. Sutton, Danielle Y. Wyrick, Catherine M. Elder, Alfred S. McEwen, Colleen M. O’Shea, Jordi E. Turner, and the Europa Clipper Reconnaissance Focus Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/add469