@inproceedings{Magner:2010,
author = {Magner, T and Erd, C and Pappalardo, R and Blanc, M and Bunce, E and Clark, K and Coustenis, A and Dougherty, M and Gavin, T and Grasset, O and Greeley, R and Van, Houten T and Lebreton, JP and Prockter, LM and Senske, D and Sturm, E and Titov, D},
pages = {10338--10350},
title = {The europa jupiter system mission (EJSM): Exploring the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants},
year = {2010}
}

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) would be an international mission with the overall theme of investigating the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants. Its goals would be to (1) Explore Europa to investigate its habitability, (2) Characterize Ganymede as a planetary object including its potential habitability and (3) Explore the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants. NASA and ESA have concluded a detailed joint study of a mission to Europa, Ganymede, and the Jupiter system. The EJSM architecture consists of two primary elements operating in the Jovian system: the NASA-led Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), and the ESA-led Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO). JEO and JGO would execute a choreographed exploration of the Jupiter System before settling into orbit around Europa and Ganymede, respectively. EJSM would directly address themes concerning the origin and evolution of icy satellite systems and water-rich environments therein. The potential habitability of the ocean-bearing moons Europa and Ganymede would be investigated, by characterizing the geophysical, compositional, geological, and external processes that affect these icy worlds. EJSM would also investigate Io and Callisto, small satellites and rings, Jupiter's atmosphere, and the Jovian magnetosphere. By better understanding the Jupiter system and unraveling its history, the formation and evolution of gas giant planets and their satellites would be better known. Most important, EJSM would shed new light on the potential for the emergence of life in our celestial neighborhood and beyond. The EJSM notional architecture provides opportunities for coordinated synergistic observations by JEO and JGO of the Jupiter and Ganymede magnetospheres, the volcanoes and torus of Io, the atmosphere of Jupiter, and comparative planetology of icy satellites. Each spacecraft would conduct both such synergistic dual-spacecraft investigations and also stand-alone measurements toward the overall mission theme and
AU  - Magner,T
AU  - Erd,C
AU  - Pappalardo,R
AU  - Blanc,M
AU  - Bunce,E
AU  - Clark,K
AU  - Coustenis,A
AU  - Dougherty,M
AU  - Gavin,T
AU  - Grasset,O
AU  - Greeley,R
AU  - Van,Houten T
AU  - Lebreton,JP
AU  - Prockter,LM
AU  - Senske,D
AU  - Sturm,E
AU  - Titov,D
EP  - 10350
PY  - 2010///
SP  - 10338
TI  - The europa jupiter system mission (EJSM): Exploring the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants
ER  - 

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