Flyby Sounding of Europa ’ S Icy Shell : Radar Investigations , Analogs , and Instruments for the Europa Clipper Mission
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The Europa Clipper is a NASA mission concept to study Europa, the ice-covered moon of Jupiter, though a series of fly-by observations of the Europan surface and subsurface from a spacecraft in Jovian orbit. One of the primary instruments in the strawman scientific payload is a multifrequency, multi-channel ice penetrating radar (IPR) system. The IPR will play a critical role in achieving the missions science objectives for Europa’s ice shell, which are to characterize the distribution of any shallow subsurface water, search for an ice-ocean interface and evaluate a spectrum of ice-ocean exchange hypotheses..
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