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Explained: ESA’s Juice mission to explore Jupiter and its icy moons

The European Space Agency is set to launch its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission to explore the largest planet and its three ocean-bearing moons. The spacecraft is expected to enter Jupiter’s orbit by 2031, where it will spend three years probing its three largest moons — Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Juice will carry 10 state-of-the-art instruments, comprising the most powerful remote sensing, geophysical and in situ payload complement ever flown to the outer solar system, according to the ESA. Costing 1.6 billion euro Juice is one of the "most complex" spacecraft to be sent into the outer solar system beyond Mars, according to Esa director-general Josef Aschbacher.

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