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 Rymer5, Krishan K Khurana6, Michael Louis Stevens4, Xianzhe Jia7, James A Slavin8, Carol S Paty9, Howard Todd Smith2, Margaret Kivelson10, Joachim Saur11, Norbert Krupp12, Elias Roussos13 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)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (7)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)University of Oregon, Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (12)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (13)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany