Giant planet Jupiter now officially has 92 moons after the orbits of 12 natural satellites discovered a few years ago were confirmed.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is in orbit around Jupiter and has been since 2016. Launching in April 2023 is the European Space Agency’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, which will arrive in the Jovian system in July 2031 to conduct flybys of Europa and Callisto before going into orbit of the solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede. The only moon known to have its own magnetic field, Ganymede is larger than both Mercury and Pluto.
Although it will launch later in October 2024, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission—which will conduct 50 flybys of Jupiter’s moon Europa as close as 16 miles from its surface—will take a more direct route so reach the Jovian system in April 2030.
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