Abstract
AbstractThe Galileo spacecraft passed close to Europa on 11 encounters, two of which (E12 and E26) came within 400 km of the surface. In E12 data, there are perturbations in field and plasma data consistent with effects of a nearby plume (Jia et al., 2018). Huybrighs et al. (2020, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087806) report depletions of proton flux in one channel of the Galileo Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) as Galileo passed close to Europa on E26. They trace particle trajectories in the magnetic field provided by a magnetohydrodynamic simulation and conclude that the spacecraft probably also passed through or close to a vapor plume on E26. However, the absence of a related signature in the measured magnetic field led us to question this conclusion. Examination of the EPD data remote from Europa on the E26 flyby reveals that the putative plume signature in the EPD data is an artifact.
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