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    The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed NASA spacecraft designed to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The main target was Europa, where an...
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    The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede...
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    January 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2011. "Exploring Jupiter – JIMO – Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter – the moon Callisto". Space Today Online. Archived from the...
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    Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE), which was launched in 2023. After flybys of all three icy Galilean moons, it is planned to enter orbit around...
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    or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter. It...
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    The Galilean moons (/ˌɡælɪˈleɪ.ən/), or Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They are the most...
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    Europa Clipper (category Missions to Jupiter)
    with projects such as Europa Orbiter and Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, in which a spacecraft would be injected into orbit around Europa. However, due to...
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    oʊ/), or Jupiter I, is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the...
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    larger icy moons, which may have subsurface liquid oceans. Funding difficulties have delayed progress, causing NASA's JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter) to be...
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    lander missions. NASA's JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter), which was canceled in 2005, and a European Jovian Europa Orbiter mission were also studied, but...
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    have more irregular moons than Jupiter. Discovery of outer planet moons   Moons of Jupiter   Moons of Saturn   Moons of Uranus   Moons of Neptune The modern...
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    Prometheus Nuclear Systems and Technology included: Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Exploration of the Jovian moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Originally planned...
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    /æməlˈθiːə/ is a moon of Jupiter. It has the third closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered,...
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  • studies of Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Callisto as well as the Jovian magnetosphere. It was superseded by Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer. Europa Jupiter System...
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  • DRO and orbited the Moon in that orbit. A distant retrograde orbit was one of the proposed orbits around Europa for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter—principally...
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    Comet (redirect from Icy comet)
    A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces...
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  • Icy moons are a class of natural satellites with surfaces composed mostly of ice. An icy moon may harbor an ocean underneath the surface, and possibly...
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    proposed as part of NASA's Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission that was canceled in 2006. ESA launched the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission...
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    The Europa Orbiter was a planned NASA mission to Jupiter's Moon Europa, that was cancelled in 2002. Its main objectives included determining the presence...
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    Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher (MAX-C) Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) Asteroid Redirect...
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    (100 yd). Jupiter has 95 moons with known orbits; 72 of them have received permanent designations, and 57 have been named. Its eight regular moons are grouped...
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  • Interferometry Mission - 2010 Mars Telecommunications Orbiter - 2009 Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter - 2005 Europa Orbiter - 2002 Deep Space 3 (a.k.a. Starlight) Deep...
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    ground-tested in 2003 by NASA and was intended for use on the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, which was canceled in 2005. The HiPEP thruster differs from earlier...
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    Plant, shown here in tests on the Earth, launched into orbit in the 1960s. Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. A long boom holds the reactor at a distance, while...
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    first known moon of Saturn, and the sixth known planetary satellite (after Earth's moon and the four Galilean moons of Jupiter). Titan orbits Saturn at...
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    Mars, and the second highest among all Solar System moons, after Jupiter's moon Io. The body of the Moon is differentiated and terrestrial, with no significant...
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    of Jupiter in 2003. The trip from Earth to Jupiter, the probe's exploration of the Jovian atmosphere, and an orbiter tour consisting of 11 orbits of Jupiter...
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    580 mi) and an orbital period of 30.35 hours. Speculation about the existence of the moons of Mars had begun when the moons of Jupiter were discovered...
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    Saturn (redirect from Orbit of Saturn)
    and, like Phoebe, orbits in retrograde fashion. Some of the moons of Saturn, including Pandora and Prometheus, act as shepherd moons to confine the rings...
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  • Jupiter Europa Orbiter Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter Jupiter Magnetospheric Orbiter Io Volcano Observer Colonization of Europa Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Europa...
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