JUICE: A European Mission to Jupiter and its Icy Moons
Olivier Grasset
(1)
,
Olivier Witasse
(2)
,
Stas Barabash
(3)
,
P. N. Brandt
(4)
,
L. Bruzzone
(5)
,
E. Bunce
(6)
,
Baptiste Cecconi
(7)
,
Thibault Cavalié
(7)
,
Giuseppe Cimò
(8)
,
Athéna Coustenis
(9, 10)
,
Gabriele Cremonese
(11)
,
Michele K. Dougherty
(12)
,
Leigh N. Fletcher
(6)
,
G. Randall Gladstone
(13)
,
Leonid I. Gurvits
(8)
,
Paul Hartogh
(14)
,
Holger Hoffmann
(15)
,
Hauke Hussmann
(16)
,
Luciano Iess
(17)
,
Ralf Jaumann
(16)
,
Yasumasa Kasaba
(18)
,
Yohai Kaspi
(19)
,
Norbert Krupp
(14)
,
Yves Langevin
(20)
,
Ingo Mueller-Wodarg
(12)
,
Pasquale Palumbo
(21)
,
Giuseppe Piccioni
(17)
,
Jeffrey Plaut
(22)
,
François Poulet
(20)
,
Th. Roatsch
(16)
,
Kurt D. Retherford
(13)
,
Hanna Rothkaehl
(23)
,
David J. Stevenson
(24)
,
Federico Tosi
(11)
,
Tim van Hoolst
(25)
,
Jan-Erik Wahlund
(26)
,
Peter Wurz
(27)
,
Nicolas Altobelli
(28)
,
A. Accomazzo
(28)
,
Arnaud Boutonnet
(2)
,
Christian Erd
(2)
,
Claire Vallat
(28)
1
LPG -
Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112]
2 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
3 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna]
4 APL
5 UNITN - Università degli Studi di Trento = University of Trento
6 University of Leicester
7 Observatoire de Paris
8 VLBI
9 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
10 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA
11 INAF
12 Imperial College London
13 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]
14 MPS
15 University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
16 DLR Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
17 University of Roma
18 Tohoku University
19 Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël]
20 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
21 Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Napoli
22 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
23 CBK - Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences
24 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology, Department of Astronomy
25 Royal Observatory
26 Institute of Space Physics
27 WP - Space Research and Planetary Sciences [Bern)
28 ESA-Sciops
2 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
3 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna]
4 APL
5 UNITN - Università degli Studi di Trento = University of Trento
6 University of Leicester
7 Observatoire de Paris
8 VLBI
9 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
10 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA
11 INAF
12 Imperial College London
13 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]
14 MPS
15 University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
16 DLR Institute of Earth and Environmental Science
17 University of Roma
18 Tohoku University
19 Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël]
20 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
21 Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Napoli
22 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
23 CBK - Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences
24 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology, Department of Astronomy
25 Royal Observatory
26 Institute of Space Physics
27 WP - Space Research and Planetary Sciences [Bern)
28 ESA-Sciops
Olivier Grasset
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Olivier Witasse
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Résumé
JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - is the first large mission in the ESA Cosmic Vision programme [1]. The implementation phase started in July 2015. JUICE will arrive at Jupiter in October 2029, and will spend 3 years characterizing the Jovian system, the planet itself, its giant magnetosphere, and the giant icy moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. JUICE will then orbit Ganymede.The first goal of JUICE is to explore the habitable zone around Jupiter [2]. Ganymede is a high-priority target because it provides a unique laboratory for analyzing the nature, evolution and habitability of icy worlds, including the characteristics of subsurface oceans, and because it possesses unique magnetic fields and plasma interactions with the environment. On Europa, the focus will be on recently active zones, where the composition, surface and subsurface features (including putative water reservoirs) will be characterized. Callisto will be explored as a witness of the early Solar System.JUICE will also explore the Jupiter system as an archetype of gas giants. The circulation, meteorology, chemistry and structure of the Jovian atmosphere will be studied from the cloud tops to the thermosphere and ionosphere. JUICE will investigate the 3D properties of the magnetodisc, and study the coupling processes within the magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere. The mission also focuses on characterizing the processes that influence surface and space environments of the moons.The payload consists of 10 instruments plus a ground-based experiment (PRIDE) to better constrain the S/C position. A remote sensing package includes imaging (JANUS) and spectral-imaging capabilities from UV to sub-mm wavelengths (UVS, MAJIS, SWI). A geophysical package consists of a laser altimeter (GALA) and a radar sounder (RIME) for exploring the moons, and a radio science experiment (3GM) to probe the atmospheres and to determine the gravity fields. The in situ package comprises a suite to study plasma and neutral gas environments (PEP) with remote sensing capabilities via energetic neutrals, a magnetometer (J-MAG) and a radio and plasma wave instrument (RPWI). [1] JUICE Definition Study Report, ESA/SRE(2014)1. [2] Grasset et al., Plan. Space Sci., 78, 2013