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Plasma Detection Instrument Delivered to JPL

An engineer examines a faraday cup, part of Europa Clipper's plasma detection instrument, which is resting on a table in a clean room. The engineer is using a flash light to examine the instrument.
Engineers inspect Europa Clipper's plasma detection instrument.
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Engineers inspect Europa Clipper's plasma detection instrument, called the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS), in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, follow the delivery of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-designed and -built instrument to JPL in June 2022.