Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph
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The Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS) is an ultraviolet spectrograph imager that will be flown on board the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.[2] The Europa-UVS will be able to detect small erupting plumes and will provide data about the composition and dynamics of Europa's thin exosphere.
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Operator | NASA |
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Instrument type | Ultraviolet spectrograph |
Function | detector and analyzer |
Mission duration | Cruise: 3-6 years Science phase: ā„ 3 years |
Properties | |
Spectral band | ultraviolet |
Host spacecraft | |
Spacecraft | Europa Clipper |
Operator | NASA |
Launch date | ā 2025 [1] |
Rocket | SLS |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center |
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The Principal Investigator is Kurt Retherford of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and the instrument engineer is Laura Jones-Wilson from JPL.