Jet Propulsion Laboratory has directed the Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Mars Exploration Rover, Perseverance, and Europa Clipper programs and missions.
Europa Clipper launched in 2024 on a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Ari Rosner previously worked at JPL on the Mars Perseverance rover and Europa Clipper missions.
NASA selected the Europa Clipper mission as a more focused study of Europa with an expected cost of $5.2 billion, and Europa Clipper launched in 2024 with an expected arrival at Europa in 2030.
Europa Clipper and JUICE will examine the interiors, surfaces, and space environments of Jupiter's large moons and probe plume activity and isotopic fingerprints of water in material erupting from Europa's icy shell.
Instruments on NASA's Europa Clipper are designed to probe ice shell thickness, internal structure, composition, and geological activity relevant to testing the proposed delamination mechanism.
The UVS instrument on Europa Clipper records ultraviolet light to determine the composition of Europa's atmosphere and surface ices.
The Europa Clipper team identified a November observing window to target the comet after the best Mars-based viewing period.
Europa Clipper can quantify the relative amounts of hydrogen, oxygen, and dust-related material in the comet's coma and tails.
Europa Clipper will conduct 49 close flybys of the icy moon Europa to study its potential habitability.
During the November observing window, Europa Clipper provided continuous coverage of 3I/ATLAS’s evolution.
The SwRI-led UVS instrument on ESA's JUICE is expected to supplement Europa Clipper observations with anti-sunward views of 3I/ATLAS.
The comet's path allowed Europa Clipper's UVS to probe the structure of surrounding material from a unique viewing geometry.
Europa Clipper launched in 2024 and is scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in 2030.
Europa Clipper's UVS viewed both the dust and plasma tails of 3I/ATLAS from behind.
Europa Clipper is traveling 1.8 billion miles to reach Jupiter by 2030 and will conduct 49 close flybys of Europa to assess below-surface habitability.
NASA paid $178,000,000 under a 2021 contract for the Falcon Heavy launch of Europa Clipper, which launched 2024-10-14.
Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter for four years and perform 49 flybys of Europa beginning in 2031.
Paige Webster's work on the Europa Clipper ensured all science instruments were fully tested before launch.
Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission with solar arrays spanning more than 30.5 m (approximately 30 m) when deployed.