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Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) - Artist view

author: M.Carroll/Novapix

reference: e-son14-01552

Image Size 300 DPI: 26 * 35 cm

The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft in development by the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission is being developed to visit the Jovian system focused on studying three of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa all of which are thought to have significant bodies of liquid water beneath their surfaces, making them potentially habitable environments.The spacecraft is set for launch in 2022 and would reach Jupiter in 2030. Foreground is Europa, background are Io and Jupiter.

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2009 - 2015 - EJSM - EUROPA - GALILEAN SATELLITE - ILLUSTRATION - IO - JEO - JOVIAN MOON - JUICE - JUPITER - PLANET - SATELLITE - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -