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NASA’s Europa Clipper is the first mission dedicated to studying Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, one of the most promising places…
On its journey to the Jupiter system, NASA’s Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth,…
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Flight housing for the Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS) instrument in early summer 2020, as it was about to begin assembly…
Here, mechanical engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, set up the engineering model of…
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The horizontal cylinder of varying diameter running across the top third of this image is an engineering (non-flight) model of…
The flight model for MISE’s diffraction grating, which disperses light, in a manner similar to a prism, before the light…
In this time-lapse video, engineers test components for Europa Clipper’s radar instrument in 2018 at a testing range — “the…
Included in the payload of science instruments for Europa Clipper is the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC).…
Engineers test one of two high frequency radar antennas for Europa Clipper’s REASON instrument on a hilltop at NASA’s Jet…
