WHY READ THIS ARTICLE?
Understand why the ice moons could include liquid water – and hence life.
Learn how the JUICE probe could be the first to peer through the moons’ ice sheets.
It is hoped that in December 2034, the Darmstadt mission control room of the European Space Agency, ESA, will erupt with cheering. It will be justly deserved if, after 11+ years of space travel through the Solar System, the JUICE space probe has successfully entered a stable orbit around the big Jupiter moon of Ganymede.
The event will be a milestone in the history of space exploration. When the probe begins its orbit, it will be the first time that we managed to deliver a spacecraft into an orbit around an alien moon.
It should all begin just days after this issiue of Australian Science Illustrated publishes,
