European Spacecraft Launches on Epic Mission to Explore Icy Moons of Jupiter
- A European Space Agency mission called JUICE successfully launched to explore Jupiter and its three largest moons.
- The moons Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa are believed to have subsurface oceans that could support life.
- JUICE will spend over eight years traveling to Jupiter, using flybys of Venus, Mars and Earth to gain momentum.
- Once at Jupiter in 2031, JUICE will orbit the planet for three and a half years and perform 35 flybys of the three icy moons.
- The mission aims to determine if the moons are habitable and search for signs of life in their suspected underground oceans.