RIME antenna deployment

Background noise measured by the RIME receiver (1 MHz bandwidth mode) onboard ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice). The plot shows data collected before (in blue) and after (in orange) the complete antenna deployment. With the 16-metre antenna open, the sensitivity increased by 1000 times (or 30 dB) and reached the nominal value.

About Juice

Juice is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. After an eight-year journey to Jupiter, it will make detailed observations of the gas giant 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.