Europa Ultraviolet Spectrograph

[1] The Europa-UVS will be able to detect small erupting plumes and will provide data about the composition and dynamics of Europa's thin exosphere.

The Principal Investigator is Kurt Retherford of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and the instrument engineer is Laura Jones-Wilson from JPL.

The Europa-UVS offers additional capabilities to locate and characterize plumes erupting from Europa's surface.

UVS will also investigate the composition and chemistry of Europa's atmosphere, its surface, and study how energy and mass flow around the moon and its environment.

The instrument does not contain a scan mirror, so the spacecraft must provide the maneuvering capability necessary to obtain complete spatial images of the moon.

The spectrograph is the gray and silver metal box on the upper right of the nadir deck (the thick matte-gray polygonal structure filling about one-third of the image).