ESA's Juice mission to explore habitability of Jupiter's icy moons.

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ESA's Juice mission to explore habitability of Jupiter's icy moons.
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The European Space Agency's Juice mission is set to launch on April 13, 2023, with the aim of exploring Jupiter's icy moons, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, to determine if they are habitable. The spacecraft will use the gravity of multiple worlds to tweak its trajectory and put it on course for Jupiter, where it will arrive in 2031. Juice is equipped with 10 science instruments, a radiation monitor, and a radio experiment that together constitute “the most powerful remote sensing, geophysical, and in situ payloads ever flown to the outer Solar System,” according to ESA. The spacecraft will perform 35 flybys of the moons before intentionally crashing into Ganymede in September 2035, ending the mission.

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