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Europa Imaging System Narrow Angle Camera

An engineering (non-flight) model of the EIS narrow-angle camera
Source: NASA/JHU-APL
Published: September 8, 2021

An engineering (non-flight) model of the EIS narrow-angle camera. The camera is mounted on gimbals, which allow the camera to pivot 60 degrees on each of two axes, enabling the camera to target a surface feature and to build mosaics of multiple high-fidelity images of Europa’s surface.

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