MISE

Jupiter's moon Europa has a crust made up of blocks, which are thought to have broken apart and 'rafted' into new positions.

Engineers stand next to Europa Clipper's plasma detection instrument in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, following its delivery in June 2022. 

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Staff Engineer Yvette Tyler performs integration and testing on the electronics box for Europa Clipper’s mass spectrometer. 

Engineers inspect Europa Clipper's ultraviolet spectrograph in a cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

The animation illustrates the magnetic connection between Europa’s induced magnetic field and the magnetic field lines of Jupiter’s own powerful magnetic field.

Europa's surface as seen by the Galileo spacecraft during its 17th orbit around Jupiter.

Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites, were photographed in early March 1979 by Voyager 1 and assembled into this collage. 

This animation shows NASA’s Europa Clipper during a flyby of Europa. 

A close-up view of the poem on the Europa Clipper vault plate’s inward-facing side.

A 3D model of Europa Clipper. 

A comparison of Voyager and Galileo images of Europa.

This artist's rendering shows NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is being developed for a launch sometime in the 2020s. 

Engineers prepare Europa Clipper's thermal imager for a series of tests in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory following delivery.

Europa Clipper’s mass spectrometer is examined following delivery to JPL in December 2022.

Engineers test a prototype of one of Europa Clipper’s radar antennas in 2018 on a hilltop at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 

Europa Clipper’s SUDA instrument is moved onto a magnetics test bench after a magnetic field background measurement.

This is a composite of two images of Jupiter's icy moon Europa obtained from a range of 2,119 miles (3,410 kilometers) by the Galileo spacecraft during its fourth orbit around Jupiter and its first...

 The main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where assembly, test, and launch operations are underway.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)’s Dan Aaron (lead spectrometer technician) is making final adjustments to the electrical connections between the MAss Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration/Euro...

This animation showing a flyover of ridged plains on Europa was created using stereo imaging data obtained by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

This animation segment shows the deployment of NASA’s Europa Clipper REASON instrument after launch.

Engineers inspect Europa Clipper's ultraviolet spectrograph in a cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California

NASA hosted a Science Chat May 14 to discuss the latest analysis of Jupiter’s moon Europa and its status as one of the most promising places in the solar system to search for life. 

The Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS) flight instrument in early fall 2021, in its final configuration.

A 3D model of the Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM), a plasma and magnetic field instrument on Europa Clipper.