franceinfo junior. Why did the Juice probe go to study Jupiter’s icy moons?

After a report related to the weather THURSDAY, the Juice probe has begun its eight-year long journey into space. On Friday April 14, she took off from the Kourou base in Guyana to study the icy moons of Jupiter. A mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) which intrigues the children of franceinfo junior, students of the college of Pierre Laval in Mayenne. To answer them: Olivier Sanguy, editor-in-chief of space news at the Cité de l’Espace in Toulouse.

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The first question of the show goes to Meriem: “What does the probe look like?”, asks the 4th grader. She also wants to know how long it took to build. Amaël takes the floor in turn: “What is the objective of the mission?”, he says into the microphone. Enzo wonders why observe these icy moons rather than the oceans for example. The opportunity for the guest to also talk about the duration of this mission and its technical constraints.

On this page, you can re-listen to this franceinfo junior program in its entirety, it was recorded as part of the media literacy workshop “La franceinfo junior editorial staff”.