The Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS): Enabling Required Plasma Measurements for the Exploration of Europa

Joe H Westlake1, Ralph L McNutt Jr2, Justin Christophe Kasper3, Anthony W Case4, Abigail M Rymer2, Krishan K Khurana5, Michael Louis Stevens4, Xianzhe Jia6, James A Slavin7, Carol S Paty8, Howard Todd Smith2, Margaret Kivelson5, Joachim Saur9, Norbert Krupp10, Elias Roussos10 and Haje Korth2, (1)JHUAPL, Laurel, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)University of Oregon, Earth Sciences & Clark Honors College, Eugene, OR, United States, (9)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (10)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany