Principal Investigator Jason Soderblom
Project Website http://europa.nasa.gov/about-clipper/instruments/
Project Start Date May 2015
The Europa Imaging System (EIS, pronounced “ice”) is being developed for the Europa Clipper mission and will collect images of Europa’s landscape, from valleys and ridges to dark bands and craters at up to 100 times better resolution than the best images acquired by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. EIS comprises two cameras: a wide-angle camera (WAC) and a narrow-angle camera (NAC). Both cameras are sensitive to near ultraviolet light to near infrared light and are capable of acquiring both an open filter (which gives the highest signal to noise ratio) and in six color filters designed to match previous mission imaging bandpasses. Images acquired from multi angles will be used to generate stereo topography.
The EIS instrument development is being lead out of APL by Dr. Elizabeth Turtle.