The feasibility of in-situ observations of Europa's water vapour plumes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I wish to thank my supervisors Dr. Yoshifumi Futaana and Prof. Stas Barabash at IRF and Prof. Bert Vermeersen at Tu Delft, for supporting this exciting Master's thesis project. Special thanks go to Dr. Yoshifumi Futaana for countless valuable discussions and teachings by the drawing board. Thanks go to all my friends and colleagues at IRF for advice and support, I won't list you all in case I forget someone. Special thanks go to Charles Lue and Jesper Lindkvist for helping me out regularly with many different aspects of space physics and numerical simulations. Gratitude also goes to Dr. Lorenz Roth (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm) for giving some valuable feedback on the plume model; and to Prof. Peter Wurz (University of Bern) and Dr. Martin Wieser (IRF) for providing information on the performance of NIM and JDC. I would also like to thank my family and friends back home, for having to miss me during my stay in the North.