Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission launched-arrive July 2031
A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decade long quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could have buried oceans.
The journey began with a morning lift-off by Europe’s Arianne rocket from French Guiana in South America. Arianespace’s chief executive Stephaney Israel called it “an absolutely perfect launch.”
But there were some tense minutes later as controllers waited for signals from the spacecraft nearly an hour into the flight. When contact was confirmed, European Space Agency’s Bruno Sousa declared from Mission Control in Germany: “The spacecraft is alive!”
It will take the robotic explorer, dubbed Juice, eight years to reach Jupiter, where it will scope out not only the solar system’s biggest planet but also Europa, Calisto and Ganymede. The three ice-encrusted moons are believed to harbour underground oceans, where sea life could exist.
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