June 8, 2015

PSI Senior Scientists Roger Clark, Amy Barr Mlinar and Candice Hansen are on the science teams of three of nine instruments chosen to be part of an upcoming mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
The Europa mission will try to determine if Euopa is habitable. The spacecraft, slated to launch in the 2020s, will orbit Jupiter while performing 45 Europa flybys over a three-year period with altitudes ranging from 25 kilometers to 2,700 kilometers.
Visit http://www.psi.edu/news/instruments for more information on PSI's involvement with the Europa mission.
Above, this artist's rendering shows a concept for a future NASA mission to Europa in which a spacecraft would make multiple close flybys of the icy Jovian moon, thought to contain a global subsurface ocean.