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Europe's JUICE mission is off to Jupiter – here's what you need to know

SPACE DIGEST

EUROPE'S JUPITER Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission successfully launched on 14 April 2023, headed off to explore some of the Solar System's most mysterious ice worlds.

Over the next decade, JUICE will chart the gas giant and its interactions with three of its four largest moons, which are covered in thick ice sheets. Below these frigid surfaces, scientists expect to find potentially world-covering oceans.

The European Space Agency's mission also hopes to extend

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