ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. The mission will characterise these moons as both planetary objects and possible habitats, explore Jupiter’s complex environment in depth, and study the wider Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants across the Universe.
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is currently winging its way to Jupiter to explore the planet and its fascinating array of moons.
As ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) prepares to explore the Jupiter system, find out how you too can observe the giant planet and its largest moons.
As the name suggests, a strong focus of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission is to explore the subsurface oceans of Jupiter’s icy moons. But an investigation into how life-friendly worlds form around gas giants would be incomplete without also studying Jupiter itself, its turbulent atmosphere, its enormous magnetic field, and the dusty rings and myriad smaller moons that also orbit the planet.Jupiter’s atmosphereMagnetic environmentVolcanic Io and Jupiter’s invisible rings
