Professor Michelle Dougherty FRS speaks to Bloomberg Businessweek
The European Space Agency will decide next week whether to launch an 830 million-euro ($1.1 billion) mission to explore habitable worlds around Jupiter. A successful mission would enable scientists to learn more about Jupiter's habitable moons, according to Imperial College of London space physicist Michele Dougherty [Physics], who spoke today at a European Geosciences Union press briefing in Vienna. The Paris-based agency is scheduled to decide on May 2. The Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, or 'Juice' mission, would be 'the first to send an orbiter to an icy world,' said Dougherty, who also leads the ESA's mission-study team. 'Juice will address the question whether there are habitats elsewhere in the solar system with the conditions to sustain life.'
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