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Mission Overview . JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - is the first large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. The mission was launched on 14 April 2023 and will arrive at Jupiter in July 2031, it will spend at least four years making detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.
- ESA - The moons of Jupiter: What will Juice discover?
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will spend years in...
- ESA - The moons of Jupiter: What will Juice discover?
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE [3]) is an interplanetary spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. These planetary-mass moons are planned to be studied because they are thought to have significant bodies of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces, which would make them potentially habitable for ...
Jupiter is a gas giant and is orbited by a family of over 60 moons. To investigate these strange worlds, ESA are preparing to launch an exciting space probe called the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, or Juice for short. Blasting off in 2022, Juice will travel across our Solar System before arriving at Jupiter in 2029.
- What Is The Juice Mission and Why Is It Going to Jupiter?
- How Will The Juice Mission Get to Jupiter?
- Instruments Onboard The Juice Mission
- What's The Difference Between Juice and Other Missions to Jupiter?
Full disclosure – I am fascinated by Jupiter and the wider Jovian system. In between working the two roles I’ve had in the Education Team at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, I completed a PhD to study Jupiter’s X-ray aurorae. As such, I am very excited about JUICE! JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) is a mission led by the European Space Agency (ES...
JUICE was launched on 14 April 2023 fromthe European Spaceport in French Guiana, which is in the northeast of South America. An Ariane 5 rocket was used to take JUICE into space before they separated about half an hour after the launch. Ariane 5 is one of the most reliable launch vehicles and has launched many space science missions, such as XMM-Ne...
Onboard JUICE are 10 cutting-edge scientific instruments and one experiment that were specifically designed and chosen to help JUICE complete its mission. JANUS is an optical camera that will take stunning photographs and will give the broad geological overview of what the other instruments are looking at. MAJIS(Moons and Jupiter Imaging Spectromet...
JUICE is ESA's first venture to Jupiter, but it is not the first spacecraft to visit the king of the planets. So far seven spacecraft (Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Ulysses, Cassini-Huygens and New Horizons) have made passing visits to the gas giant planet, while Galileo and Juno are the only two to orbit and study the Jupiter syste...
It will arrive at Jupiter in 2031 and spend 2.5 years orbiting Jupiter, often flying within 200 to 1,000 kilometers (about 120 to 620 miles) of the icy moons. In this first phase of the mission, the solar-powered spacecraft will fly by Europa twice, and 12 times past Ganymede and Callisto each, enabling repeated close studies of these moons in unprecedented detail.
Sep 20, 2023 · ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will provide a detailed investigation of the Jovian system in the 2030s, combining a suite of state-of-the-art instruments with an orbital tour tailored to maximise observing opportunities. We review the Jupiter science enabled by the JUICE mission, building on the legacy of discoveries from the Galileo, Cassini, and Juno missions, alongside ground ...
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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will spend years in the Jovian system exploring the gas giant Jupiter, its space environment, and its intriguing satellites. Juice will pay particular attention to three of Jupiter’s ‘Galilean moons’: Ganymede, Europa and Callisto.
