Sunday, 21 September 2014

moonlanding - What instruments/science goals have the highest priorities for a combined orbiter and lander to Europa?

A NASA mission to Europa seems to have a friend in congress. What would be the most important instruments and science goals for such a mission? Seismometry, radar, surface chemistry, a drill/melter, hopper. What are the most important of the feasible kinds of instruments on a first mission to Europa that could be launched in maybe 5 years, say, for a Cassini kind of budget?

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