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19992026
most citedProbing for Evidence of Plumes on Europa with HST/STIS

230 citations · 458 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission (JUICE-UVS)

Kurt D. Retherford, Philippa M. Molyneux, Thomas K. Greathouse +51

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, led by ESA, has an Ultraviolet Spectrograph (JUICE-UVS) contributed by NASA and built at Southwest Research Institute. JUICE-UVS is…

astro-ph.IM2020

The science enabled by a dedicated solar system space telescope

Cindy L. Young, Michael H. Wong, Kunio M. Sayanagi +35

The National Academy Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) made a recommendation to study a large/medium-class dedicated space telescope for planetary science, goi…

astro-ph.IM2020

Architectures and Technologies for a Space Telescope for Solar System Science

Kunio M. Sayanagi, Cindy L. Young, Lynn Bowman +37

We advocate for a mission concept study for a space telescope dedicated to solar system science in Earth orbit. Such a study was recommended by the Committee on Astrobiology and Pl…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 19 cited

A Search for Water Vapor Plumes on Europa using SOFIA

William Sparks, M. Richter, C. deWitt +8

We present mid-infrared SOFIA/EXES spectroscopy of Europa, seeking direct evidence of the presence of water vapor arising from plumes venting from the surface of Europa. We place q…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 1 cited

Galileo ionosphere profile coincident with repeat plume detection location at Europa

Melissa A. McGrath, William B. Sparks

The location of a repeat plume detected at Europa is found to be coincident with the strongest ionosphere detection made by Galileo radio occultation in 1997.

astro-ph.EP2017★ 163 cited

Active Cryovolcanism on Europa?

William B. Sparks, Britney E. Schmidt, Melissa A. McGrath +4

Evidence for plumes of water on Europa has previously been found using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) using two different observing techniques. Roth et al. (2014) found line emis…