Space View larger. | This is an artist's illustration of Europa Clipper as it passes by Europa. SwRI delivered the MAss SPectrometer for Planetary EXploration/Europa (MASPEX) instrument for Europa Clipper to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in December 2022. MASPEX acts as a 'nose' for Europa Clipper, sniffing out and analyzing gases on and near the moon. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech. Last month (December 2022), engineers and technicians delivered an advanced new mass spectrometer for the Europa Clipper mission to JPL in Pasadena, California.

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