The Graz instrument is part of a magnetic sensor system that is specifically designed to study the oceans beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moons.
The Graz instrument is part of a magnetic sensor system that is specifically designed to study the oceans beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moons. ESA - AOES By Medieninfo - When ESA's JUICE mission is launched in 2022 to explore Jupiter's icy moons, a scientific instrument from Graz will also be on board. The Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the TU Graz are supplying a novel quantum interference magnetometer. JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) is the European Space Agency's (ESA) first mission exploring the outermost solar system. Researchers assume that Jupiter's icy moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are home to oceans beneath their surfaces and now want to investigate these potential habitats more closely. The Graz instrument is part of a magnetic sensor system that was built together with Imperial College London and TU Braunschweig for exactly this scientific question. 45,000 working ours from Graz.
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