2023-04-24 15:04:46
The JUICE mission (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) of the European Space Agency left on April 14 in the direction of the planet Jupiter. Point J wonders what there is to find on this planet and what lessons we might learn from it on Earth.
“JUICE studies Jupiter not as an isolated planet, but within its system (…). It has moons that revolve around it: it is like a solar subsystem in the Solar System. This mission is dedicated to understand what these moons look like and how they interact with Jupiter”, explains Léa Griton, lecturer at the Sorbonne and researcher at the Paris Observatory, specialist in plasma physics and planetology.
These are levels of exploration that allow us to push our models to better understand the formation of the solar system, the appearance of life…
“We speak of icy moons because Jupiter is much further from the Sun than the Earth: its heat reaches it much less easily. We are interested in these moons because the instruments sent previously around Jupiter, all the combined techniques (spatial or on Earth) have given pretty strong hints that these moons may have oceans under a layer of ice, so the question is: what are these oceans like, what makes them up? forms of life?”, adds the specialist.
>> Read also: Does life exist on the ocean worlds of our Solar System?
What life forms might exist on Jupiter? What will the JUICE mission bring back from its exploration?
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Jessica Vial and the Point J team
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