Europa-UVS

Explore Europa and the Europa Clipper spacecraft with an immersive AR experience.

A 3D-printed mock-up of optical head and shielding for Europa Clipper’s stellar reference unit (or star tracker) going through contamination control and planetary protection sampling prior to enter...

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

This animation segment shows NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft leaving Earth. 

Engineers and technicians work on the flight model of Europa Clipper’s Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) instrument in a cleanroom at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern...

Europa Clipper's ultraviolet spectrograph is delivered to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

In this movie Europa is seen in a cutaway view through two cycles of its 3.5 day orbit about the giant planet Jupiter. 

One of Europa Clipper’s star tracker optical heads in a JPL clean room for testing.

Europa Clipper’s surface dust analyzer instrument is unboxed following delivery to JPL in September 2022. 

The Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on the Galileo spacecraft imaged most of Europa in 1996.

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

Jupiter's moon Europa may have an ocean more than twice the size of Earth's oceans combined. Why do scientists think so? Find out in 60 seconds.

This infrared image of Europa, showing heat radiation from its surface at a wavelength of 27 microns (millionths of a meter), provides the best view yet of Europa's daytime temperatures. 

This view of the south polar region of Jupiter's moon Europa shows part of a gray band that formed as plates on the icy surface separated and material filled in the widening gap.

This moderate-resolution view of the surface of one of Jupiter's moons, Europa, shows the complex icy crust that has been extensively modified by fracturing and the formation of ridges.

The prominent "X" near the center of the mosaic is the junction of two "triplebands," parallel sets of ridges.

A 3D model of Europa Clipper. 

This view of the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa, is a mosaic of two pictures taken by the Solid State Imaging system on board the Galileo spacecraft during a close flyby of Europa on Feb. 20...

This view of Jupiter's moon Europa features several regional views obtained during different flybys of the moon by NASA's Galileo mission.

Workers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California deploy Europa Clipper’s magnetometer boom.

The team working on the Europa Imaging System narrow angle camera took its “first light” image with the telescope and detector.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)’s Brandon Perez (mechanical engineer; left) and Bryan Esquivel (technician; right) prepare to install electrical boards into the Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph ...

The animation shows the geometry of the magnetic field created within Europa’s subsurface ocean as Europa moves through Jupiter’s magnetic field.

This montage shows the best views of Jupiter's four large and diverse "Galilean" satellites as seen by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby o...

The outward-facing side of Europa Clipper's vault plate shows waveforms symbolizing the word 'water' in multiple languages.