October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... life?’ Science objectives The Jupiter system is seen as a miniature solar system with countless unique environments to explore JUICE will focus on characterising the conditions that may have led to the emergence of habitable environments among the...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... of the distribution of H2O/H2O+ in the exosphere which can hopefully be gained from remote sensing instruments on board JUICE. Jupiter’s moon Europa. Opportunity The plausible, but not conclusively proven, existence of water vapour plumes on Europa...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... and other aspects of Jupiter when ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) arrives at the gas giant by 2029. When settled in its orbit, JUICE will study the planet’s atmosphere, magnetosphere, and the effect that Jupiter...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
... future planned missions to the ice world in 2022 – NASA’s Europa Clipper and the European Space Agency’s JUICE mission – whose aim is to determine whether the icy moon possesses the ingredients necessary to support life as we know...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
With harsh radiation constantly pouring down on Europa, when NASA’s Europa Clipper or ESA’s JUICE mission heads to the small Jovian icy moon in a few years, would their instruments be able to detect signs of ...
05 November 2018
First global thermal map of Europa reveals curious cold spot
... a further analysis of this region may have to wait until either NASA’s Clipper or ESA’s and NASA’s joint JUICE mission reaches this frigid but curious moon. For the time-being though, this surface oddity...
