News Archive / Tagged: JUICE

• Europe launches JUICE to study Jupiter’s icy moons

  Derek RichardsonApril 14th, 2023

  The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, JUICE, is on its way to the solar system’s largest planet to study three of its four Galilean moons.

• ESA’s JUICE spacecraft could detect water plumes erupting on Europa

  Tomasz NowakowskiApril 29th, 2017

  ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission to the Jovian system could easily confirm the presence of water on Europa, a new study finds. According to the research, it is feasible to detect water molecules (H2O) and water ions (H2O+) from the moon’s plumes during a flyby mission.

• NASA approves instruments for ESA’s ‘JUICE’ mission

  Jim SharkeyApril 21st, 2017

  NASA's contributions to an upcoming European Space Agency mission have been moved from preliminary design to implementation phase. The "JUICE" mission is scheduled to launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in Oct. 2029. JUICE will spend nearly four years investigating Jupiter's environment and its icy Galilean moons.