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NASA Announces Science Instruments For Potentially $2 Billion Europa Mission

Friday, June 5th, 2015

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NASA on May 26 announced the nine instruments that will participate in a mission that could be worth around $2 billion over its program life to investigate whether Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, could harbor conditions suitable for life.NASA selected: Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS); Interior Characterization of Europa using Magnetometer (ICEMAG); Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE); Europa Imaging System (EIS); Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-Surface (REASON); Europa Thermal Emission Imaging System (E-THEMIS); Mass Spectrometer…

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