Juice: The ESA's Mission to Jupiter's Moons, Explained | WSJ

The European Space Agency launched its Juice mission to explore the potential for life on three of Jupiter’s largest moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Could the largest planet in our solar system harbor the key to showing what is needed to sustain life?

WSJ’s Aylin Woodward explains what will happen on the eight-year journey and what scientists are hoping to learn once the spacecraft arrives.

0:00 ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is on a mission to characterize what makes a world habitable
0:44 Background on the Juice mission
2:14 What will Juice study?
3:44 What’s next for space exploration?

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