Joint Europa Mission (JEM): A Multiscale, Multi-Platform Mission to Characterize Europa’s Habitability and Search for Extant Life
Whitepaper #380 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: habitability and water; life and prebiotic organics; ocean worlds
by Michel Blanc, Olga Prieto-Ballesteros, Nicolas André, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Geraint Jones, Veerle Sterken, William Desprats, Leonid I. Gurvits, Krishan Khurana, Georges Balmino, Aljona Blöcker, Renaud Broquet, Emma Bunce, Cyril Cavel, Gaël Choblet, Geoffrey Colins, Marcello Coradini, John Cooper, Dominic Dirkx, Dominique Fontaine, Philippe Garnier, David Gaudin, Paul Hartogh, Hauke Hussmann, Antonio Genova, Luciano Iess, Adrian Jäggi, Sascha Kempf, Norbert Krupp, Luisa Lara, Jérémie Lasue, Valéry Lainey, François Leblanc, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Andrea Longobardo, Ralph Lorenz, Philippe Martins, Zita Martins, Jean-Charles Marty, Adam Masters, David Mimoun, Ernesto Palumba, Victor Parro, Pascal Regnier, Joachim Saur, Adriaan Schutte, Edward C. Sittler, Tilman Spohn, Ralf Srama, Katrin Stephan, Károly Szegő, Federico Tosi, Steve Vance, Roland Wagner, Tim Van Hoolst, Martin Volwerk, Jan-Erik Wahlund, Frances Westall, and Peter Wurz
Published onMar 18, 2021
Joint Europa Mission (JEM): A Multiscale, Multi-Platform Mission to Characterize Europa’s Habitability and Search for Extant Life
In this White Paper we propose that NASA works with ESA and other potentially interested international partners to design and fly jointly an ambitious and exciting planetary mission to characterize Europa’s habitability and search for bio-signatures in the environment of Europa (surface, subsurface and exosphere).
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