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The Ultraviolet Spectrograph on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission (JUICE-UVS)
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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, led by ESA, has an Ultraviolet Spectrograph (JUICE-UVS) contributed by NASA and built at Southwest Research Institute. JUICE-UVS is designed to provide a diversity of measurements to further our understanding of the potential habitability of icy ocean worlds at Jupiter and to study Jupiter and the Jovian system as an archetype for gas giants. JUICE-UVS observes photons in the 50-204 nm wavelength range at moderate spectral and spatial resolution along a 7.5 deg slit composed of 7.3 deg x 0.1 deg and 0.2 deg x 0.2 deg contiguous sections. JUICE-UVS performs a comprehensive study of icy satellite atmospheres, plumes, surfaces, and local space environments; Jupiter's atmosphere and aurora; Io and its Io Plasma Torus; and other Jupiter system targets (rings, small moons, etc.) as available. The variety of observational techniques employed include: nadir push-broom imaging, disk scans, limb stares, stellar and solar occultations, Jupiter transit observations, and neutral cloud/plasma torus stares and scans. This paper describes the UVS investigation's science plans, instrument details, concept of operations, and data formats in the context of the JUICE mission's habitability and Jupiter system goals.
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