Esoterra Orbiter A Scientific Mission to Icy Europa

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Esoterra OrbiterA Scientific Mission to Icy
Europa

• Melissa Brown, Todd Mintz, Pinal Patel, Blake
  Zealear

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History and Background

• Voyager, Galileo

• Atmosphere

• Icy Surface

• Tidal Flexing

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Why go to Europa?

• Evidence of Liquid Water

• Water leads to life?

• Extremophiles

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Esoterras Propulsion System

• Mini Magnetosphere Plasma Propulsion (M2P2)
  System

• Flight time 1.5 years Distance covered 4.3mil
  miles/day

• Sailing the Solar Wind on a magnetic balloon

• Protecting Esoterra The added benefits of the
  M2P2s force field

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Cruising Towards Jupiter
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How to Orbit Europa

• Broken Plane Maneuver

• Careful Calculations

• Gravity Assists

• Insertion into Europas orbit

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Orbital pathways around Jupiter and its moons
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Instrumentation

• The space around Europa

• High-energy particles

• The atmosphere of Europa

• Atmospheric probe, Mass spectrometer

• The surface of Europa

• Gamma ray spectrometer, CCD

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Outreach Program

• 10-15 Minute Presentation

• Let students play game

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