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ESA's Juice mission

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#ESAJuice will carry 10 instruments, comprising the most powerful payload complement ever flown to the outer Solar System 🦾

✅A remote sensing package
✅A geophysical package
✅An in situ package

+ an experiment.

Here's what they will explore 🧵👇

The remote package of #ESAJuice includes camera and spectrometers from the ultraviolet to the sub-millimetre wavelengths to study #Jupiter's clouds and explore the moons' geological features & icy surfaces.

It includes 4 instruments: JANUS, MAJIS, UVS and SWI

👉 JANUS will study global, regional & local features and processes on #Ganymede, as well as map the clouds of #Jupiter.

👉 MAJIS will observe cloud features and atmospheric constituents on Jupiter & will characterise ices and minerals on the icy moon surfaces.

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ESA's JUICE mission

@ESA_JUICE

Investigating how life-friendly worlds might form around gas giants would be incomplete without also studying #Jupiter itself.

What will #ESAJuice reveal about Jupiter? 🧵👇

#ESAJuice will use its unique instruments to study Jupiter's atmosphere and answer questions such as:

🌪️What's the weather & climate like?
🌫️How does an atmosphere work with no solid surface?
🌡️What makes the upper atmosphere so hot?

#Jupiter has a magnetic field about 20 times stronger than Earth's & one million times larger in volume.

#ESAJuice will study the region around Jupiter dominated by this magnetic field, the magnetosphere, to discover how the environment shapes conditions on the icy moons.

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