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01 Aug

Intro to the JUICE Mission

JUICE stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. It is the first L-class mission in ESA's 2015-2025 Cosmic Vision programme, where L stands for large. The JUICE spacecraft was launched in April 2023 and is planned to reach the Jupiter system in 2031. The mission aims

26 Jul

Jupiter – The Giant Planet

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Jupiter is a gaseous planet 11 times the size of the Earth. It is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth planet from Sun at 778 million km, or about 5.2 astronomical units. An astronomical unit is the Earth-Sun distance and is

13 Jul

Welcome to our School Blog!

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We are back! In this year's edition of Coimbra Space Summer School, our focus is is on the latest phase of Jupiter exploration: the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission's objective is to explore Jupiter itself, along

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