00:03there aren't a whole lot of places in our solar system we believe life could survive but a couple
00:08of the ones high on the list are some of jupiter's moons it was discovered way back in 1995 that
00:13europa callisto and ganymede all had liquid water under their crusts and they seem to be salty with
00:18other carbonates as well meaning they're mineral laden and could support life and now the european
00:23space agency has announced a massive project to make it to one of these moons in the next decade
00:28they're calling the mission juice or the jupiter icy moons explorer and it's launching this month
00:33the mission will have a probe travel to the jovian system or the mini solar system with jupiter at
00:37its center the probe won't get there until 2031 but they're hoping to get as much information as
00:42they can about ganymede ganymede has long been one of the places experts say is the best to start
00:47looking for life that's because it has a magnetosphere or the protective magnetic field
00:51that shields it from cosmic radiation all in all the probe will be looking at four of jupiter's moons
00:56all while contending with temperatures ranging from 482 all the way down to minus 418 degrees
01:02fahrenheit and the probe's instruments are all cutting edge as well with experts saying they
01:06are 10 000 times more accurate than the ones galileo had when it reached jupiter 30 years ago
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