11 Instruments Picked for Europe's Juice Mission

摘要

The European Space Agency has selected the 11 scientific instruments that will fly aboard the roughly $1 billion Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer orbiter slated to launch in 2022. Selected last year as Europe's next flagship space mission, the spacecraft — better known as Juice — is expected to arrive at Jupiter in 2030 and spend 3.5 years studying the gas giant and its large ocean-bearing moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.