JUICE is a satellite of the European Space Agency which was launched in April 2023 to reach Jupiter in July 2031. The mission aims to study in great detail the giant planet and three of its largest moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. In this presentation that will include animations, Olivier Witasse, from the European Space Agency, will present this ambitious project, its history, its development, its launch and trajectory, its scientific objectives, and its technical and human challenges. A great adventure!
Speaker Bio: Olivier Witasse is a Project Scientist at the European Space Agency. He holds a PhD from the Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble (France) in aeronomy, where he studied the upper atmospheres of the Earth and Mars. After two post-doctoral positions between 2000 and 2003, he became Staff member of the European Space Agency in 2003. He has worked on the Cassini-Huygens, Venus Express, Chandrayaan-1, Mars Express, and ExoMars orbiter missions, and since 2015 he is the project scientist of the JUICE mission. His research activities focus on planetary atmospheres.
Image credit: ESA
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