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skydivephil
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Now that ESa have selected Juice as its next main mission it seems dissapointing that the main target is Ganymede rather than Europa.
I guess this is due to the extra cost of extra radiation shielding for Europa and due to the fact that NASa were supposed to do Europa as part of the original Laplace mission.
So given Juice plans only 2 fly bys of Europa what will we really learn?
Will it definitley answer the ocean hypothesis and measure the depth fo the ice sheet?
I guess this is due to the extra cost of extra radiation shielding for Europa and due to the fact that NASa were supposed to do Europa as part of the original Laplace mission.
So given Juice plans only 2 fly bys of Europa what will we really learn?
Will it definitley answer the ocean hypothesis and measure the depth fo the ice sheet?