Artist's concept of the Europa Lander with Jupiter and Io in the background
Mission type
Astrobiology
Operator
NASA
Website
www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-lander/
Mission duration
≤ 22 days on the surface [1]
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type
Lander
Launch mass
16.6 metric tons [1]
Power
50 kWh (from batteries only) [1]
Start of mission
Launch date
2025-2030 (proposed)[2]
Rocket
Space Launch System or a commercial rocket
Europa lander
Large strategic science missions
EuropaOn Earth, subglacial microbial communities at Blood Falls survive in cold darkness without oxygen, living in brine water below Taylor Glacier, but come out at this location in Antarctica. The red color comes from dissolved iron.
The Europa Lander is a proposed astrobiology mission concept by NASA to send a lander to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.[3][4] If funded and developed as a large strategic science mission, it would be launched in 2027 to complement the studies by the Europa Clipper orbiter mission and perform analyses on site.[5]
The objectives of the mission are to search for biosignatures at the subsurface ≈10 cm, to characterize the composition of non-ice near-subsurface material, and determine the proximity of liquid water and recently erupted material near the lander's location.
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