Moons of Jupiter, here we come! ESA's JUICE mission to explore three of Jupiter’s icy moons and examine whether they have the right conditions for life is launching in just over an hour. Watch the live launch coverage here
Moons of Jupiter, here we come. The European Space Agency is sending an orbiter on an 8-year journey towards Jupiter, where it will explore three of the gas giant’s four large moons. The orbiter, called the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is scheduled to launch on 13 April from Kourou, French Guiana.
atop an Ariane 5 rocket. The journey to Jupiter isn’t a direct one, though – at launch, the spacecraft won’t have enough speed to go straight there. Instead, it will take a circuitous route, making a series of close passes by Earth and Venus over the course of the next six years. Those passes will have a sort of
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