JUICE space probe, to study Jupiter and its icy moons

JUICE space probe, to study Jupiter and its icy moons

PAZ PIZARO

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RIME: radar

SWI: submillimeter wave

an instrument for the study of the atmosphere

UVS: ultraviolet

spectrograph

MAJIS: hyper-spectral imaging

research spectrometer

tropospheric clouds

Remote monitoring

On-site monitoring

Geophysical

Janus: optical camera

RPWI:

Instrument for radio plasma waves

to study the plasma environment

J-Mag: a magnetometer for studying magnetic fields

(Ganymede is the only moon in the solar system known to have a magnetic field)

PEP: instruments with probe sensors

plasma medium

3GM (in probe):

radio tools for learning

range of inland oceans

of the ice moons

GALA: Ganymede Laser Altimeter

RIME: Penetrating Investigation Radar

up to 9 km below the moons surface

Sources: *European Space Agency/Cnes

JUICE to explore Jupiter and its icy moons