• Question: Why is the satellite called JUICE?

    Asked by bellk19 to Nawapat on 9 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Nawapat Kaweeyanun

      Nawapat Kaweeyanun answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      The satellite’s full name is the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. But JIME is not a very catchy acronym so we use capitalisation a bit creatively to get JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, or JUICE!

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