EPSC Abstracts
Vol. 17, EPSC2024-1179, 2024, updated on 03 Jul 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-1179
Europlanet Science Congress 2024
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Europa-UVS at One Month Prior to Europa Clipper Launch

Kurt Retherford1,2, Tracy Becker1,2, Thomas Greathouse1, Randy Gladstone1,2, Matthew Freeman1, Michael Davis1, Rohini Giles1, Joshua Kammer1, Melissa McGrath3, Shawn Brooks4, Ujjwal Raut1,2, Bereket Mamo2,1, Amanda Hendrix5, Vincent Hue6, Sue Ferrell1, Erica Johnson1, Philippa Molyneux1, Kristian Persson1, Lorenz Roth7, Joachim Saur8, and the Europa-UVS Team*
Kurt Retherford et al.
  • 1Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States of America (kretherford@swri.edu)
  • 2University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America
  • 3SETI Institute, United States of America
  • 4Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States of America
  • 5Planetary Science Institute, United States of America
  • 6Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-Marseille, France
  • 7KTH Royal Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 8Univ. of Cologne, Köln, Germany
  • *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract

The Europa Clipper mission will launch in October 2024. The Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS) instrument science goals are focused on Europa habitability goals, specifically: 1) Search for and characterize the vapor composition of any plumes; and 2) Enable mapping of atmospheric vertical structure and composition. We’ll discuss the status of the Europa-UVS instrument, plans for post-launch commissioning and calibrations, and its extreme-UV to far-UV (55-205 nm) observational techniques to investigate aurora and airglow imaging, stellar and solar occultation, Jupiter transit, and surface reflectance.  Coordination with its sister instrument on the Juice mission, JUICE-UVS, offers additional opportunities for advancing the science goals for each mission.

Europa-UVS Team:

Kurt D. Retherford, Tracy M. Becker, G. Randy Gladstone, Thomas K. Greathouse, Matthew Freeman, Michael W. Davis, Rohini Giles, Joshua Kammer, Melissa McGrath, Shawn Brooks, Ujjwal Raut, Bereket Mamo, Amanda Hendrix, Vincent Hue, Sue Ferrell, Erica Johnson, Philippa M. Molyneux, Kristian Persson, Lorenz Roth, Joachim Saur, John Spencer, Alan Stern, Bradley Trantham, Michael Velez, Maarten Versteeg, Jason Winkenstern

How to cite: Retherford, K., Becker, T., Greathouse, T., Gladstone, R., Freeman, M., Davis, M., Giles, R., Kammer, J., McGrath, M., Brooks, S., Raut, U., Mamo, B., Hendrix, A., Hue, V., Ferrell, S., Johnson, E., Molyneux, P., Persson, K., Roth, L., and Saur, J. and the Europa-UVS Team: Europa-UVS at One Month Prior to Europa Clipper Launch, Europlanet Science Congress 2024, Berlin, Germany, 8–13 Sep 2024, EPSC2024-1179, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-1179, 2024.