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Title: 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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