JUICE is fully loaded for interplanetary action
“Juice’s cameras will capture exquisite details of the moon’s features, as well as identify the ices and minerals on their surfaces,” writes ESA in its press kit. “Other instruments will sound the subsurface and interior of the moons to better understand the location and nature of their buried oceans. The tenuous atmosphere around the moons will also be explored.”
JUICE is also traveling with a science experiment that leverages the probe’s communication system with ground-based telescopes on Earth, which will help controllers to determine the spacecraft’s position and velocity.
