Two Southwest Research Institute instruments selected for NASA Europa mission

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 18:30 in Astronomy & Space

Two Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) instruments have been selected for a NASA mission to Europa, which will launch in the 2020s to study this large, potentially habitable Jovian moon. The Mass Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration (MASPEX) and Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) were selected from 33 candidate instruments for the yet-to-be named mission.

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