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Students analyze simulated radar data to map surface elevations on a grid.

The images used for the base of this globe were chosen from coverage supplied by the Galileo solid-state imaging (SSI) camera and Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.

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

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 animation segment shows the deployment of NASA’s Europa Clipper ECM boom after launch.

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...

Pwyll crater on Jupiter's moon, Europa, was photographed by the Solid State Imaging system on the Galileo spacecraft during its sixth orbit around Jupiter.

Europa Clipper's propulsion module is offloaded from its transportation trailer following arrival at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

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

Thera and Thrace are two dark, reddish regions of enigmatic terrain that disrupt the older icy ridged plains on Jupiter's moon Europa.

This image of Jupiter's satellite Europa was obtained from a range of 7,364 miles (11,851 kilometers) by the Galileo spacecraft during its fourth orbit around Jupiter and its first close pass of Eu...

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

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

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

The Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS) flight instrument in early fall 2021, just before the principal investigator's final optical inspection and installation of its top cover. 

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

Does life exist beyond Earth? Ocean worlds like Europa could be habitable and possibly even inhabited. 

This image of the Jovian moon Europa was taken by Voyager 2 the spacecraft passed within 139,800 miles (225,000 kilometers) on July 9, 1979.

How was NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft packed and shipped from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to Kennedy Space Center in Florida?

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) staff collaborate on the calibration of the MAss Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration/Europa (MASPEX) instrument, developed and built at SwRI. 

A JPL engineer holds one of four VHF radar antennas for Europa Clipper’s REASON instrument in its deployed configuration.

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

Engineers following initial inspections of Europa Clipper's ultraviolet spectrograph in a cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Dark crisscrossing bands on Jupiter's moon Europa represent widespread disruption from fracturing and the possible eruption of gases and rocky material from the moon's interior in this four-frame m...

This view of the Pwyll impact crater on Jupiter's moon Europa taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows the interior structure and surrounding ejecta deposits.