The mission will probe Jupiter's icy moons for signs of habitability, potentially providing clues as to the origins of life on other celestial bodies.
In the images, parts of the spacecraft partially obstruct
’s photos are nevertheless gorgeous, but this isn’t what we can expect from the mission’s views of Jupiter and its moons. ’s solar arrays, while its second camera is on top of the spacecraft to monitor the deployment of the spacecraft’s 52-foot-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration antenna, according to ESA. The ice-penetrating radar, which will unfold in the coming days, will be used to probe the subsurface structures underneath the moons’ icy surfaces. Scientists suspect these moons of harboring liquid oceans beneath the surface, hence the interest from an astrobiological perspective.
unfurled its massive solar array panels, which rotated into their 70-degree position to deploy the spacecraft’s silver wings.span across 915 square feet in size, making it the largest array to ever be deployed for an interplanetary mission,
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