NASA plans to land the machine on Jupiter's moon Europa
NASA say they have decided on the basic priorities of the forthcoming space mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. Scientists are convinced that this satellite is covered with a layer of ice several kilometers, but under it there is a liquid ocean, whose depth is between 50 and 100 km, and there may well be organic. This fact upcoming science flight will confirm or refute. NASA will fly to Europe and go into orbit around it, and then began exploring the composition and chemistry of under-ice oceans of Europe. Simultaneously, the "European" mission also includes the study of the dynamics and the thickness of the ice on Europa's surface. In the last stage of the project will explore the geology of Europe.
"If one day people will send the lander on the surface of Europa, we need to know exactly which scientific tools for this to take," - says the author of research projects, Robert Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "Of course, before landing on the Europe we need to make another big complex arrangements, but studies such as this bring us closer to this goal. " NASA is now saying that when the satellite of Saturn will be sent to the lander, he should have advanced drilling capabilities to study the icy surface of the satellite. Collection of subglacial materials - this is the ultimate goal of the mission, but modern technologies do not allow the unit to send to Europe, which could drill a hole depth of several kilometers. Meanwhile, a research team from NASA said that the upcoming orbiter to Europe will have to have seven main scientific instruments: a mass spectrometer, Raman spectrometer, magnetometer, multiband Seismological Service and mapping system with a picture, and takde microscopic camera and object recognition system on the photo.
NASA say that once on Mars and Titan these days life is almost certainly not , Europe is becoming the new prime candidate for studies related to extraterrestrial life forms. It is clear that in the coming decades will be riveted the attention of researchers is to Europe. European Space Agency also sends its scientific apparatus JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) to Jupiter, this device will reach the largest planet in the solar system in 2030, and is expected to launch its 2022. Jupiter, he will hold for at least three years, and except for the gas planet will try to explore its three satellites - Europe, Callisto and Ganymede. Landing on satellites JUICE does not provide.
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