{"id":5340,"date":"2023-03-29T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T05:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T00:14:42","slug":"jupiter-icy-moons-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jupiter-icy-moons-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice)<\/strong> will be <strong>Europe\u2019s first dedicated robotic mission to Jupiter<\/strong>. Juice is due to reach the planet in <strong>July 2031<\/strong> after performing an incredible flight path through the Solar System.<\/li>\n<li>The mission will <strong>enter into orbit around Jupiter and perform numerous flybys<\/strong> of its large icy moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.<\/li>\n<li>After four years of moon flybys, Juice will then enter into orbit around <strong>Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System<\/strong> \u2014 becoming the first spacecraft ever to reach orbit around the moon of another planet.<\/li>\n<li>The icy moons of Jupiter are interesting as they are all <strong>believed to host oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces<\/strong>. Europa, in particular, is regarded as one of the most likely abodes in the Solar System for extra-terrestrial life.<\/li>\n<li>Juice will be equipped with <strong>ten scientific instruments<\/strong> including ice-penetrating radar to study the internal oceans. This use of radar is a practical first step in mapping the sub-surface oceans, paving the way for more exotic future missions involving submersible vehicles \u2014 some of which have already been put forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which Organisation is developing the JUICE spacecraft?<\/h3>\n<p>Airbus is developing and building JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) spacecraft for the European Space Agency to study Jupiter and its icy moons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/science-technology\/five-space-exploration-missions-to-look-out-for-in-2023-86825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ESA\u2019s first mission to study internal oceans under Icy moons of Jupiter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}