Ganymede, here we come. A €1 billion mission to place spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter's largest moon - also the largest in the solar system - has received the green light from the European Space Agency.
Called the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, or Juice, the spacecraft will fly past two other Jovian moons - Callisto and Europa - and end its journey in orbit around a third, Ganymede.
While Europa, a water world with the potential to support life, has grabbed more of the limelightover the years, Ganymede,with its own ocean, auroras and oxygen, may have even more to offer, says Emma Bunce, a physicist at the University of Leicester, UK, and a member of the science team behind Juice.
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