Vault Plate Info Panel

Engineers and technicians move the vault plate into position for installation on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft on May 3, 2024. 

How did the team working on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft test whether the spacecraft will work properly in outer space?

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

Europa Clipper engineers use mixed reality (also known as augmented reality, or AR) headsets to examine Europa Clipper’s avionics module assembly in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

An accelerometer is attached to a plasma instrument sensor assembly during a vibration test.

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

A worker cleans part of the nadir deck for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.

The high gain antenna for the Europa Clipper recently underwent testing. 

This image of Europa's surface was obtained by the Solid State Imaging (CCD) system on board NASA's Galileo spacecraft during its fourth orbit of Jupiter, Linear features with bright central stripe...

A 3D model of Europa Clipper’s Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS), a spectrometry instrument on Europa Clipper.

This mosaic of the south polar region of Jupiter's moon Europa shows the northern 180 miles (290 kilometers) of a strike-slip fault named Astypalaea Linea.

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 ...

One of the Europa Clipper magnetometer's three fluxgate sensors, which will measure the strength and orientation of Europa's magnetic fields.

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

This video shows a test deployment of Europa Clipper’s high frequency (HF) radar antenna.

The picture compares four large impact structures on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.

This is an image from Europa Clipper’s thermal imager science instrument. The image was taken during the instrument's first-light test.

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.

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

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

One moment in an ancient, orbital dance is caught in this color picture taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 7, 2000, just as two of Jupiter's four major moons, Europa and Callisto, were near...

A plasma instrument sensor assembly is mounted on a vibration table.

Features on Jupiter's moon Europa that may be "flows" from ice volcanoes.

The nadir deck for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. 

An engineer handles the SUrface Dust Analyzer (SUDA) in the clean room at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dry nitrogen gas is continua...