Juice Looks Back at Earth During Its Space Odyssey to Jupiter's Moons - by b0yle
xplorer) in order to keep tabs on the spacecraft’s solar arrays and antennas as they’re being deployed. Being able to get some shots of other celestial bodies in the background is a bonus.
The views from the JMC1 camera on the front of the spacecraft and the JMC2 camera on top aren’t exactly high-definition. The resolution is 1024 x 1024 pixels, and the images have gone through only a light round of processing. A scientific-grade camera will send back much higher-resolution images after the probe gets to the vicinity of Europa, Callisto and Ganymede in 2031.
Juice’s primary mission is to make up-close observations of those icy Jovian moons with its cameras and a magnetometer — and with athat can probe beneath the moons’ surfaces to chart the watery oceans that scientists say lie beneath. There’s a chance those oceans could harbor alien life, but that’s unlikely to show up on radar.
There’s a lot of traveling that Juice will have to do before that part of the mission starts. To keep track of the spacecraft during its space odyssey in the 2020s, and to learn more about how it’ll get where it’s going, check out ESA’s
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