Energetic charged particle observations of Europa’s near-space environment during the Juno PJ45 flyby and anticipations for the JUICE mission
- 1Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, USA
- 2Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, USA
- 3Swedish Institute for Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
- 4University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- 5Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
- 6Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland
- 7University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
- 8University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, USA
- 9University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Jupiter’s moon Europa is of high scientific interest because it is an ocean world with a tenuous atmosphere and may also harbor sporadic water plumes. Europa is also embedded deep within Jupiter’s magnetosphere and resides in a harsh environment of radiation comprised of energetic-to-relativistic electrons and ions. Understanding the interplay between Europa and its near-space environment is key to unlocking the mysteries on how energetic particles contribute to surface weathering processes and how the moon itself and the neutral gasses that surround its orbital region contribute to energetic charged particle dynamics (e.g., acceleration and losses). In this presentation, we report on energetic particle observations made by Juno/JEDI during the PJ45 close flyby of Europa and discuss implications for the Particle Environment Package (PEP) instrument suite onboard ESA’s JUICE mission.
How to cite: Clark, G., Mauk, B., Paranicas, C., Brandt, P., Kollmann, P., Smith, T., Allegrini, F., Bolton, S., Mitchell, D., Gkioulidou, M., Barabash, S., Wurz, P., Krupp, N., Roussos, E., Huybrighs, H., Paty, C., Jia, X., Khurana, K., and Pontoni, A.: Energetic charged particle observations of Europa’s near-space environment during the Juno PJ45 flyby and anticipations for the JUICE mission , EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-14393, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-14393, 2024.
