ESA Science & Technology - Europa - Jupiter International Science Workshop

This is to announce a Workshop in association with studies for an international Europa/Jupiter System Mission in collaboration between NASA, ESA, JAXA and possibly other international partners. This mission would carry out an in-depth study of Europa and the Jupiter system, with special emphasis on studying Europa's habitability in the global context of the Jupiter system. Following ESA's Cosmic Vision call for a mission to be launched in the 2015-2025 time-frame, two missions were selected to study a candidate large mission to the Outer Solar System: 1) LAPLACE (Europa-Jupiter) and 2) TandEM (Titan and Enceladus - Saturn). JAXA and Roscosmos previously supported the LAPLACE proposal, and in 2007 NASA conducted studies of the Europa Explorer and the Jupiter System Observer as concepts for a flagship-class mission to Europa and the Jupiter system.

The purpose of this Workshop is to provide a venue for the international science community interested in the exploration of Europa and the Jupiter system to discuss the scientific and measurement objectives in the current plans by the space agencies that are now engaged in studying this very exciting and challenging mission to Europa and the Jupiter system. All contributions from the community are welcome, to address in particular the following three aspects of the mission design:

The Workshop is organised by INAF-IFSI and CESR with the support of ESA and NASA. Proposals for contributions can be sent to the members of the Organizing Committee.

Local Organising Committee Federico Tosi (chair)     federico.tosiifsi-roma.inaf.it Angioletta Coradini Enrico Flamini Paolo Giommi Gianrico Filacchione Diego Turrini Maria Teresa Capria

Scientific Organising Committee Michel Blanc (Co-chair)     Michel.Blancpolytechnique.edu Ron Greeley (Co-chair)     greeleyasu.edu Jean-Pierre Lebreton Robert Pappalardo Federico Tosi Philippe Louarn Lev Zelenyi Sho Sasaki Masaki Fujimoto Olivier Grasset Hauke Hußman Norbert Krupp Pierre Drossart

For full details and registration visit the workshop website at 
http://www.ifsi-roma.inaf.it/ifsi/index.php?categoryid=48