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The official @ESA feed for #ESAJuice, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. Launched on 14 April 2023 to study Jupiter and three of its icy moons 🛰️
Apr 4, 2023 10 tweets 6 min read
#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 🧵👇 Infographic showing ESA's Juice instruments: their location 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
Apr 3, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
Investigating how life-friendly worlds might form around gas giants would be incomplete without also studying #Jupiter itself.

What will #ESAJuice reveal about Jupiter? 🧵👇 Jupiter covering most of the frame, with dark and light band #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 looms large in this image. Set against a black backg