ESA's Juice is On Its Way to Visit Jupiter's Moons By Nancy_A
The timing for Juice’s launch was very precise. The launch window was about one second so that the orbital mechanics could allow for the spacecraft’s complex trajectory. The eight-year cruise includes four gravity-assist flybys of Earth and Venus, which will slingshot the spacecraft towards the outer Solar System.
Ten state-of-the-art instruments will study the environment of Jupiter and the subsurface of the icy moons. The instruments include radar that can penetrate the surfaces of the icy moons as deep as nine kilometers , showing us their internal structures for the first time. A visible-and-infrared spectrometer will be able to detect what the surfaces of the icy moons are made of.
And if you’re wondering if the name of the spacecraft is Juice or JUICE, ESA decided to simplify the original complicated acronym for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer to just Juice, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.
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