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Juice spacecraft detects life’s building blocks on Earth, prepares to do the same for Jupiter’s icy Moons
A trial run for finding signs of life Juice, launched in 2023, will travel to Jupiter over eight years. Upon arrival, it will ...
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ESA's JUICE spacecraft confirmed Earth is habitable. Here's why
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at Earth. The spacecraft returned some very exciting news: the Earth is ...
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The small moons of Jupiter
Jupiter has four large moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – with diameters of more than 3000 kilometres. However, as of April 2023, we know it is also home to 91 additional small satellites.
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JANUS camera system
JANUS is a camera system on JUICE. It will photograph the surfaces of Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa in high resolution and thus provide the basis for mapping the icy moons. The image data will ...
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NASA Spacecraft Whipping Around Mars to Slingshot Itself Toward Jupiter's Mysterious Moon
For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) — which will also be exploring Europa, in addition to its larger cousins Ganymede and Callisto ...