Water plumes over Europa |
Water plumes over Europa |
Dec 12 2013, 04:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
This seems like the relevant place to post this (could be wrong): Water plumes from Europa? Apologies if it's already been up. The link to the Science article at the bottom doesn't work for me, does anyone have a working link to the original? Cheers.
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Dec 13 2013, 03:36 PM
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Looking at smaller missions than ESA's JUICE or the proposed Europa Clipper, there have been at least two proposals to explore Enceladus with Discovery-class missions. One, JET would image the tiger stripes with a high resolution thermal instrument and sample the plume chemistry with a duplicate of the Rosetta mass spectrometer (much more capable than Cassini's spectrometer). The other would return samples collected in aerogel a la Stardust. I suspect that the concepts could be easily adapted for Europa with the added advantage of being able to use solar power instead of an MMRTG.
Does anyone know whether JUICE would be lucky enough to encounter Europa at its apojove when the plumes (if confirmed and if persistent) are likely to be active? -------------------- |
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