Juice to Jupiter

A billion Euro space mission to Jupiter and it's moons has been organized by the European Space Agency (ESA). The launch is due to take place in 2022. 
The satellite, named Juice, will take approximately 5 years to reach the biggest planet in our Solar System, and it will be piloted for a further 10 years before it ends its life. Juice's mission is to take pictures and collect data, so that we can find out anything that we don't yet know. Juice will fly in orbit around Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. But before it can do that, the satellite will hopefully be able to take Jupiter's gravitational pull into advantage. It will slowly fly by Europa and Callisto.


The information collected will help scientists determine wether micro organisms can and are surviving on any of the moons surrounding Jupiter. Furthermore, we have proof that they have huge, thick ice shelves on both of their poles. Ice is basically frozen water, so where there is water; life must exist. 


If successful, this journey to the far end of our Solar System may be remembered as the greatest find of all kind. Not only will we be able to know if there is other life out there, but we will also have another place where humans could live in the far future. Jupiter is in the cold zone of our Solar System, but remember how humans were once monkeys? We evolved over time and adapted to live all around the world. Maybe the same thing could happen in this case? We will just have to find out, there is quite a few years left until the big launch. Stay tuned and hope it will all go to plan. You never know, our ancestors could once end up living on a different planet, all thanks to us...