ESA selects instruments for JUICE mission to explore Jupiter and its moons
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Artist's concept of JUICE orbiting Jupiter (Image: ESA)
Artist's concept of JUICE (Image: ESA)
Artist's concept of JUICE (Image: ESA)
Timeline of the JUICE mission (Image: ESA)
Callisto (Image: NASA)
Europa (Image: NASA)
Jupiter as seen from NASA's Cassini probe (Image: NASA)
Ganymede (Image: NOAA)
Present state of the existing and past habitable worlds in the Solar System ranked as red (not possible), yellow (likely but not yet demonstrated) and green (demonstrated or very likely) (Image: ESA)
Callisto and its features (Image: ESA)
Electromagnetic interactions of Jupiter and its moons (Image: ESA)
Europa and its features (Image: ESA)
Ganymede and its features (Image: ESA)
Possible configuration of the JUICE probe (Image: ESA)
Possible configuration of the JUICE probe (Image: ESA)
JUICE mission objectives (Image: ESA)
Possible locations of water layer on Jovian moons (Image: ESA)
Article Summary
The European Space Agency (ESA) is sending JUICE to Jupiter in 2022. Rather than some kind of interplanetary beverage delivery, JUICE stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) and is the first Large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. The spacecraft will carry out the most thorough exploration of Jupiter and its moons since NASA's Galileo mission that ran from 1989 to 2003. The ESA has now announced the eleven scientific instruments selected to for the unmanned probe to carry to the gas giant.
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