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Screenshot from a tool displaying the different trajectories of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, red line) and NASA’s Europa Clipper (blue line) over the course of their respective missions in the 2030s.
Europa Clipper’s orbit is equatorial, while Juice will spend time orbiting at higher inclinations, together providing outstanding combined opportunities for tracking changes in the particle, magnetic and solar wind environment, in time and space from two different locations.
[Image description: Multiple overlapping circular and oval lines in cyan and red representing Europa Clipper and Juice orbits around Jupiter. Clipper’s orbits (cyan) lie mainly in the equatorial plane around Jupiter. Juice’s orbits (red) include some orbits at high inclination, slanted to the top right. On either side of the image a list of distances between each spacecraft and Jupiter and its moons is shown for a given date and time.]