Sentences with phrase «jovian environment»

Ganymede is identified for detailed investigation since it provides a natural laboratory for analysis of the nature, evolution and potential habitability of icy worlds in general, and also because of the role it plays within the system of Galilean satellites, and its unique magnetic and plasma interactions with the surrounding Jovian environment.

They were fabricated on sapphire (silicon on insulator), which is radiation - hardened and suitable for the intense Jovian environment.

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Since the Jovian radiation belt environment is considered to be one of the most intense and hazardous environments in our Solar System, several models to describe it have been developed (e.g. Santos - Costa et al. 2001; Santos - Costa & Bourdarie 2001; Sicard - Piet et al. 2011).

The focus of JUICE is to characterise the conditions that may have led to the emergence of habitable environments among the Jovian icy satellites, with special emphasis on the three ocean - bearing worlds, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto.