Sentences with phrase «europa orbiter mission»
Within Exploration, the bill provides $ 495 million for the Jupiter Europa mission, which would fund both an orbiter and a lander, whereas the President proposed $ 425 million for the Europa orbiter mission and not a lander.
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The mission would include a lander spending 35 days on the moon's surface to sample and screen material for traces of life; an orbiter spending three months taking measurements to unravel the basic structure of the planet; and the orbiter crashing into the moon, gathering data on Europa's tenuous atmosphere on the way down.
For now, the second - highest priority mission on NASA's wish list is the Jupiter Europa Orbiter, which would survey the ice - covered moon Europa and the global ocean that seems to lie beneath its frozen surface.
Its next phase will be the Europa Clipper mission, a Jupiter orbiter launching in the 2020s to study the watery depths beneath the Jovian moon's icy crust.
The NASA budget announced in February mows down a scarily long list of science missions, from a Europa orbiter to a space - based gravitational - wave observatory.
The overall plan, currently known as the Europa Jupiter System Mission, or EJSM, includes a NASA spacecraft dubbed the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), which would settle into orbit around Europa after conducting a broader tour of the Jovian environs.
That's why advocates have pushed for a «Europa Clipper» concept that would spin around the moon in multiple flybys, rather than calling for an orbiter — a more difficult and expensive mission that would subject the spacecraft to much greater doses of radiation from Jupiter.
Useful for launching larger interplanetary science payloads such as Asteroid Redirect Mission, Mars Sample Return, Jupiter Europa Orbiter, Saturn / Titan Sample Return, Ice Giant Exploration, Outer Planet Sample Return, Large Telescopes and In - Space Infrastructres.
As well as Europa, the new NASA budget also provides the necessary funding to continue both the Opportunity rover mission on Mars and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon, both of which had been zeroed out in the President's earlier budget proposal.