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Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS)
Southwest Res Inst, San Antonio, TX 78238 USA.;Univ Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249 USA..
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Electrical Engineering, Space and Plasma Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0554-4691
Univ Cologne, Cologne, Germany..
2024 (English)In: Space Science Reviews, ISSN 0038-6308, E-ISSN 1572-9672, Vol. 220, no 8, article id 89Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

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 Europa mission's Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS), built at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), is primarily a "plume finder" and tenuous atmosphere investigation. The science objectives of Europa-UVS are to: 1) Search for and characterize any current activity, notably plumes; and 2) Characterize the composition and sources of volatiles to identify the signatures of non-ice materials, including organic compounds, in the atmosphere and local space environment. Europa-UVS observes photons in the 55-206 nm wavelength range at moderate spectral and spatial resolution along a 7.5 degrees slit composed of 7.3 degrees x0.1 degrees and 0.2 degrees x0.2 degrees contiguous sections. A variety of observational techniques including nadir pushbroom imaging, disk scans, stellar and solar occultations, Jupiter transit observations, and neutral cloud/plasma torus stares are employed to perform a comprehensive study of Europa's atmosphere, plumes, surface, and local space environment. This paper describes the Europa-UVS investigation's science plans, instrument details, concept of operations, and data formats in the context of the Europa Clipper mission's primary habitability assessment goals.

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Springer Nature , 2024. Vol. 220, no 8, article id 89
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Europa, Europa Clipper, Ocean worlds, Jupiter, Icy moon, Ultraviolet spectroscopy
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-357236DOI: 10.1007/s11214-024-01121-xISI: 001358928800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85194395379OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-357236DiVA, id: diva2:1921368
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