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ESA selects instruments to be flown on its icy moons mission

Publication date: 28 March 2013

JUICE (Image credit: ESA)

The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission (JUICE) will study Jupiter and its large, ice/ocean-bearing moons. JUICE is planned to launch in 2022 and arrive in 2030. Dr Nick Achilleos (CPS / UCL Astrophysics) is part of the J-MAG Consortium, an international team of investigators who have successfully proposed one of the 11 scientific experiments to be flown on board this mission.

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Planet Earth Online features CPS astrobiology work in Iceland, led by Dr Claire Cousins         

Publication date: 8 March 2013

Glacio-volcano (Credit: Dr Claire Cousins)

The Natural Environment Research Council have featured a news article on astrobiology work in Iceland carried out by CPS members on their 'Planet Earth Online' website. The article is based on a paper in press with the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, led by Dr Claire Cousins, entitled "Glaciovolcanic hydrothermal environments in Iceland and implications for their detection on Mars".

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