Vault Plate Info Panel

A plasma instrument sensor assembly is subjected to a simulated electromagnetic interference environment.

This animation showing a flyover of southern part of Thrace Macula on Europa was created using stereo imaging data obtained by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

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

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

This animation segment shows the deployment of NASA’s Europa Clipper solar arrays after launch.

Europa Clipper engineers using mixed reality (also known as augment reality, or AR) headsets to examine Europa Clipper’s avionics module assembly. 

Hundreds of ridges that cut across each other on Europa indicate multiple episodes of ridge formation either by volcanic or tectonic activity within the ice.

A 3D model of the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS), a plasma and magnetic field instrument on Europa Clipper. 

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may be the most promising place in the solar system to find present-day environments suitable for life beyond Earth.

Europa Clipper’s thermal imager sits in its protective enclosure in the cleanroom at Arizona State University. 

Two major pieces of hardware – Europa Clipper’s vault, with the nadir deck attached – are prepared for a move to the High Bay 1 clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsi...

Join team members from NASA’s Europa Clipper mission in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to learn about testing of the spacecraft’s magnetometer.

 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.

This graphic shows the location of water vapor detected over Europa's south pole that provides the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off Europa's surface.

Scientists put Europa Clipper’s ultraviolet spectrograph through its final calibrations prior to shipment to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Artist’s illustration of Jupiter and Europa (in the foreground) with the Galileo spacecraft after its pass through a plume erupting from Europa’s surface.

An engineer inspects the radio frequency (RF) panel of NASA’s Europa Clipper.

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

This graphic of Jupiter's moon Europa maps a relationship between the amount of energy deposited onto the moon from charged-particle bombardment and the chemical contents of ice deposits on the sur...

This artist's concept shows a simulated view from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Europa's potentially rough, icy surface, tinged with reddish areas that scientists hope to learn more about, ...

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

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

Engineers and technicians in a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, integrate the tanks that will contain helium pressurant onto the propulsion module of NASA’s ...

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

The optical head for Europa Clipper’s stellar reference unit, or star tracker, in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.