Europa Exploration: Assessing Habitability of a Subsurface Ocean with a Nine-Instrument Flyby Mission
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Europa likely harbors a vast salty ocean beneath an ice crust where tidal heat and chemical energy could support life, and a nine‑instrument NASA mission, coordinated with ESA’s JUICE flybys, will measure ice thickness, ocean depth and salinity, chemistry, and geologic activity to assess habitability rather than detect life.
