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For Further InformationESA's Juice will study Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, with 35 moon flybys after it reaches Jupiter in July 2031.
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A spacecraft with 85 square metres of solar wings and ten instruments, studying Jupiter and three ocean-bearing moons.
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Launched April 14, 2023 on Ariane 5; Earth flybys September 2026 (done) and January 2029; arrival July 2031.
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To characterise the icy moons as possible habitats and learn how gas giants and their moons form.
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ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, launched on April 14, 2023 to study Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, as both worlds and possible habitats. Its September 2026 Earth flyby is done; the next is in January 2029, and it reaches Jupiter in July 2031 for 35 moon flybys. NASA's JPL built parts of its RIME A tool that sends out radio waves and listens for the echoes. From space it can see the ground through clouds, day or night. Glossary, which probes beneath the ice.
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Comparing ocean moons with our own ocean planet helps explain what makes a world habitable, and how rare Earth is.
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