Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission
- April 13, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission
Subject : Science and technology
Section: space technology
Concept :
- The European Space Agency (ESA) is all set to launch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or Juice, mission from its spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane 5 launcher.
About Juice Mission
- It is planned to reach Jupiter in 2031.
- The mission aims to carry out a detailed exploration of Jupiter and its icy moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, which potentially have habitable environments.
- The main focus will be on Ganymede, as it is the largest moon in the Solar System and the only one to generate its own magnetic field.
- Another primary goal of the mission is to create a comprehensive picture of Jupiter by trying to understand its origin, history and evolution.
- Juice will also analyse the chemistry, structure, dynamics, weather, and climate of Jupiter and its ever-changing atmosphere.
- However, Juice isn’t equipped to detect life.
- It is capable of is finding out whether there could be places where the necessary conditions, such as water, biological essential elements, energy, and stability, to sustain life are present.
Other spacecraft to Jupiter:
- Only two other spacecraft have ever examined Jupiter:
- the Galileo probe, which orbited the gas giant between 1995 and 2003, and
- Juno, which has been circling the planet since 2016.
Europa Clipper:
- By the time Juice reaches Jupiter, another spacecraft, NASA’s Europa Clipper, would already be orbiting the planet.
- It is scheduled to be launched in 2023.
- It would arrive at Jupiter in 2030 and aims to study its Europa moon.