In Situ Science and Instrumentation for the Exploration of Europa and Ocean Worlds

Session ID#: 120950

Session Description:
Future landed missions to Europa and other ocean worlds will bring significant advances to our understanding of these environments. Such in situ exploration will enable biochemical and geophysical experiments that cannot be done from orbit and provide important new context for earlier remote sensing observations, analysis, and derived modeling. This session is intended to bring together 1) proposals for scientific experiments to be performed from the surface or subsurface of ocean worlds, 2) innovative engineering and instrument approaches to surface or subsurface exploration, and 3) landed mission concepts, such as Europa Lander. Abstracts covering mission concepts, instrument concepts and technologies, supporting laboratory work, and other novel in situ surface or subsurface science and implementation topics are encouraged, as are abstracts covering planetary protection strategies for mitigating risk of forward contamination.
Index Terms:

5422 Ices [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6221 Europa [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6282 Enceladus [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]


Primary Convener:  Erin Janelle Leonard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Shawn M Brooks, Jason Daniel Hofgartner and Divya M Persaud, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Erin Janelle Leonard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
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