Paris: Can we discover the conditions needed for life outside Earth in the Solar System? This is one of the mysteries that the space mission JUICE (for Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer) will try to clarify. Initially scheduled to launch from Kourou, French Guiana in the afternoon of Thursday, 13 April 2023, the spacecraft was moved to Friday due to bad weather.
To carry out the mission to a planet located more than 600 million km away, the European Space Agency (ESA) has brought together at least 13 European countries, the US, Japan and Israel. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and the planet with the most moons. To date, their number is estimated at between 82 and 95, with most having been discovered in the last 20 years.
Answers to these questions have to be found
JUICE is the first mission to receive funding of more than 1 billion euros as part of ESA’s Cosmic Vision programme. It seeks to find answers to 4 main questions: How did planets form and how did life appear? How does the Solar System work? What are the fundamental laws of physics in the universe? How did the present universe come into existence and what is it made of?
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