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Historic Comet Smashup Brought Water to Jupiter’s Stratosphere

April 23, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A large comet that peppered Jupiter two decades ago brought water into the giant planet’s atmosphere, according to new research from the Herschel space observatory. Shoemaker-Levy 9 astounded astronomers worldwide when its 21 fragments hit Jupiter in June 1994. The event [...]

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ESA Turns On The JUICE For New Jupiter Mission

May 2, 2012

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for an exciting mission to explore the icy moons of Jupiter, as well as the giant planet itself. JUICE — JUpiter ICy moons Explorer — will consist of a solar-powered spacecraft that will spend 3.5 years within the Jovian system, investigating Ganymede, Europa and the upper atmosphere [...]

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JUICE to Jupiter Could Be ESA’s Next Major Science Mission

April 18, 2012

The Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency has recommended that the next major space mission for ESA be an orbiter mission to the Jupiter system named JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. This mission would launch in about 2020 and explore potentially habitable moon around the gas giant, Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede. This [...]

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