Monday, 14 December 2015: 14:35
3002 (Moscone West)
Jack H Waite Jr1, Tim Brockwell1, Melissa A McGrath2, William B McKinnon3, Everett Shock4, Scott J Bolton5, Danielle Y Wyrick5, Benjamin D Teolis5, Mark A Sephton6, Olivier Mousis7, Mikhail Yu Zolotov4, William S Lewis1 and The Europa MASPEX Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (4)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (7)Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (UMR7326 - CNRS-INSU, Université d’Aix-Marseille), Marseille, France
Abstract:
MASPEX Europa is a space borne mass spectrometer that will use unprecedented sensitivity and mass resolution to measure and characterize the exosphere of Europa. This talk will demonstrate how MASPEX plans to use this information to study the composition of the surface, near surface, and interior ocean of Europa.
