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ArticleSpace science reviews2025

Europa Clipper Magnetometer Boom Deployment: A First Look at the Magnetometer Observations of the Spacecraft and the Interplanetary Magnetic Field.

Corey J Cochrane, Steven P Joy, Haje Korth, John B Biersteker, Jordana Blacksberg, Michael Bouchard, Jacob Contreras, Olivia R Dawson, Krishan K Khurana, Neil Murphy and 12 more

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Corey J CochraneJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4935-1472
Steven P JoyDepartment of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095 CA USA.
Haje KorthJohns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, 20723 MD USA.
John B BierstekerDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139 MA USA.
Jordana BlacksbergJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Michael BouchardJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Jacob ContrerasDepartment of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095 CA USA.
Olivia R DawsonJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Krishan K KhuranaDepartment of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095 CA USA.
Neil MurphyJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Derek PalmJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Mitch O PerleyJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
David R PierceJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Ingo RichterInstitute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
Christopher T RussellJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Sarah ShermanJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Robert J StrangewayDepartment of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095 CA USA.
Benjamin P WeissDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139 MA USA.
Lee WigglesworthJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.
Margaret G KivelsonDepartment of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095 CA USA.
Xianzhe JiaDepartment of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109 MI USA.
Carol A RaymondJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91109 CA USA.

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Abstract

NASA's Europa Clipper flagship mission is designed to investigate the habitability of Jupiter's moon Europa. A key instrument aboard the spacecraft is the Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM), a suite of fluxgate magnetometer sensors deployed on a boom to minimize spacecraft-induced magnetic interference. The ECM investigation aims to characterize Europa's induced magnetic field, offering constraints on the salinity, depth, and thickness of its subsurface ocean. This work presents the first in-flight ECM observations acquired during the magnetometer boom deployment and shortly thereafter. We show how these observations provide the requisite evidence needed to validate a successful deployment. We also demonstrate how these observations can be used to calibrate the sensor offsets and to develop new magnetic field models of the spacecraft of varying complexity, thus enabling the robust removal of the instrument's zero-levels which is critical for achieving the mission's science objectives. We finally share preliminary calibrated magnetometer observations acquired over a two-month period after deployment, revealing a very active interplanetary magnetic field characteristic of solar maximum. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11214-025-01238-7.

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Europa ClipperEuropa Clipper MagnetometerInterplanetary magnetic fieldMagnetometer calibrationSpacecraft magnetic field

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