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ESA's JUICE spacecraft captured over 120 JANUS images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 6 November 2025, revealing a bright coma, a long tail and jets as it passed about 66 million km from the Sun; five of JUICE's instruments (JANUS, MAJIS, SWI, PEP, UVS) gathered data to study the comet’s composition and behavior, with teams continuing analysis as data are processed.
ESA's Juice mission captured the first image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with its JANUS camera, showing the coma and a long tail seven days after perihelion as Juice sat about 66 million km away. Five instruments (JANUS, MAJIS, SWI, PEP, UVS) collected data to study the comet’s activity and composition, with teams now analyzing the results and planning a late-March synthesis of findings.
The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft will unexpectedly observe interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in November 2023 from a distance, providing rare remote sensing data before its main mission to study Jupiter's moons in the early 2030s. This unplanned observation offers a unique opportunity to study an interstellar object, with data expected to arrive in 2026.
The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft successfully resolved a communication anomaly caused by a software bug, allowing it to proceed with its Venus flyby and continue its mission to study Jupiter's moons, despite initial communication challenges.
The European Space Agency's JUICE mission, launched on April 14, 2023, aims to explore Jupiter and its icy moons, including Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, to study their composition, geology, and potential habitability. The mission involves complex navigation, including a critical lunar-Earth flyby in August 2024, to propel the spacecraft towards Jupiter. Equipped with advanced instruments, JUICE will investigate subsurface oceans, surface compositions, and Jupiter's atmosphere and magnetosphere, contributing to our understanding of the Jovian system and the search for extraterrestrial life.
The JUICE mission, set to reach Jupiter in 2031, recently simulated a flyby of Jupiter's moon Callisto using the spacecraft's engineering model at the European Space Operations Centre. The mission faces challenges due to time delays in communication with Earth, requiring the spacecraft to autonomously adjust its orientation to observe surface features during flybys. The upcoming Lunar-Earth Gravity Assist in August will provide the spacecraft with additional velocity as it prepares for its journey to Jupiter.
Jupiter's moon Callisto, the third-largest moon in the Solar System, has been found to have a significant amount of oxygen, much more than expected. Previous experiments suggested that the oxygen was produced through electronic sputtering and chemical reactions, but the observed amount of oxygen exceeds these predictions by several orders of magnitude. Scientists are now seeking to understand the source of this excess oxygen through future observations, such as those planned during the upcoming JUICE mission to Jupiter's icy moons.
The European Space Agency's Juice mission, which aims to explore the secrets of the ocean worlds around Jupiter, was interrupted by an adorable sloth named Gérard who photobombed the rocket launch in French Guiana. The sloth stole the show and has since become a star of the ESA's Juice telecast.
An Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft on an eight-year journey to Jupiter. The Airbus-built spacecraft will perform several gravity-assist flybys to reach Jupiter and three of its largest moons. JUICE will enter orbit around Jupiter in July 2031, performing 35 flybys of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto to characterize their surfaces and subterranean oceans, including determining if they are habitable. The launch was the penultimate flight of the Ariane 5 rocket, which is being replaced by the Ariane 6.
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or Juice, has been launched to explore Jupiter and its three largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa, which are believed to have subsurface oceans that could potentially harbor life. The spacecraft will take eight years to reach Jupiter and will spend about three and a half years orbiting the gas giant and conducting flybys of the moons. The mission has five main objectives, including characterizing the moons and determining if they are potentially habitable for life.
The European Space Agency's Juice mission is set to launch on Thursday to explore Jupiter and its three largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa, which are believed to have subsurface oceans that could potentially harbor life. The spacecraft will take eight years to reach Jupiter and will spend three and a half years orbiting the gas giant and conducting flybys of the moons. The mission aims to determine if the moons are habitable and to search for evidence of the building blocks of life. The spacecraft is equipped with 10 instruments to study the moons' composition, structure, and magnetic fields.
The European Space Agency's Juice mission will launch on April 13 to study three of Jupiter's moons, Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede, which could offer clues in the search for extraterrestrial life. The spacecraft will take more than eight years to reach Jupiter, with a series of gravitational assists past Venus, Mars, and Earth. Juice will perform 35 flybys of the moons, searching for magnetic signals and other evidence to confirm the presence and size of oceans sloshing under their surfaces. The mission's primary objective is the study of Ganymede, the first spacecraft to orbit a moon in the outer solar system.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission to study Jupiter's major moons, Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede, which are believed to have oceans of liquid water at depth. The mission aims to determine whether the moons have the conditions needed to sustain simple microbial organisms. Juice will perform 35 close passes of the moons before settling into orbit around Ganymede. The spacecraft carries a total of 10 instruments, including a UK-provided magnetometer that could provide some of the most influential data. The US will launch its companion mission, known as Clipper, next year, which will focus on Europa.
Europe's JUICE mission to Jupiter has only a one-second launch window each day until the end of April due to the spacecraft's long and winding route through the inner solar system, taking advantage of the gravity of the planets Venus and Earth, as well as Earth's moon, to reach its destination using the least fuel possible. The Ariane 5 rocket will launch JUICE directly into orbit around the sun, which will swing the spacecraft back by Earth in August 2024. If Ariane 5 misses all of its one-second launch windows in April, the planets will align for JUICE again later this summer.
Europe's JUICE mission will launch on April 13 to explore Jupiter and its three largest moons, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede. JUICE will collect data to confirm the presence of liquid water below the surfaces of these moons, which was only hinted at by the Galileo mission back in the 1900s. The spacecraft will fly by all moons multiple times to collect valuable data and will enter orbit directly around Ganymede in 2034, making it the first moon other than Earth's to have a spacecraft in its orbit.