ESA selects instruments for JUICE mission to explore Jupiter and its moons

ESA selects instruments for JUICE mission to explore Jupiter and its moons:

The European Space Agency (ESA) is sending JUICE to Jupiter in 2022. Rather than some kind of interplanetary beverage delivery, JUICE stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) and is the first Large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. The spacecraft will carry out the most thorough exploration of Jupiter and its moons since NASA's Galileo mission that ran from 1989 to 2003. The ESA has now announced the eleven scientific instruments selected to for the unmanned probe to carry to the gas giant... Continue Reading ESA selects instruments for JUICE mission to explore Jupiter and its moons

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Tags: ESA, JUICE, Jupiter, Space, Spacecraft

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