ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is set to embark on an eight-year cruise to Jupiter starting April 2023. The mission will investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and the Jupiter system as an archetype for the numerous giant planets now known to orbit other stars.

During its time exploring Jupiter and its ice moons, Juice will make two flybys of Europa, which has strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water under its icy shell. Juice will investigate the moon’s active zones, surface composition and geology, search for pockets of liquid water under the surface, and study the plasma environment around Europa, also exploring the moon’s tiny atmosphere and hunting for plumes of water vapour (as have been previously detected erupting to space).

This video gives an impression of Juice making a Europa flyby.

Watch the full sequence of Juice’s journey to, and tour of, Jupiter and its icy moons.

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