Europa: Candidate for habitability

Continuing our series on the upcoming missions to the Jupiter system and talking about the Jovian moons, here is a brief overview of Europa and why it is the best suited candidate for habitability in our Solar System. The size of Europa is quite similar to that of our own moon but their interior...

Ganymede: The largest icy moon of Jupiter

Following up on our last blog about the icy moons of Jupiter, in this blog we start off with understanding the largest moon of the planet and our Solar System, Ganymede! Although we have only a few measurements from the moon through the Galileo and Juno missions orbiting Jupiter, we have quite a lot...

The icy moons of Jupiter

Jupiter is a giant ball of gas which is 10 times larger than the planet we live on. Naturally, the magnetic field it produces is also stronger, more than 20 times Earth's magnetic field!While we need to understand Earth's field for our day to day tasks like navigation, we study Jupiter's field to understand...