P-RIME time for testing antennae

The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer – or JUICE – spacecraft is ESA’s next mission to the exciting Galilean moons of Jupiter.

JUICE will visit the moons Ganymede, Europa and Callisto, which have proposed subsurface oceans that could even support life as we know it.

Ahead of its launch, ESA has been developing the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) instrument on JUICE. This radar antenna will pierce through their icy crusts in order to examine the contents as deep as nine kilometres (5.6 miles), hopefully relaying exhilarating news of the environment below.