Juice prepared for fuelling
This image shows ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) being attached to a temporary stand for fuelling. The black, conical stand allows the fuelling inlet and outlet to be at a more convenient height for fuelling operators who wear big Self-Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble, or ‘scape’ suits that limit their freedom of movement and field of view.
See a photo of Juice being fuelled by an operator in a scape suit here.
Juice is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. It will make detailed observations of gas giant Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. This ambitious mission will characterise these moons with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
