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ESA's JUICE mission successfully lift-off from French Guiana.

The Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is ready for the challenge. The main goal of that mission is to research and explore the secrets of Jupiter's icy moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Each of those icy moons involves more water than on Earth. And at least in Europa is the ocean, which means there could be lifeforms. The magnetic fields of those moons mean that they could offer harbor for very special lifeforms that are very similar to the first bacteria on Earth.  The thing that makes water liquid on those moons is Jupiter's tidal forces. And in some vision of the future, during space missions, the first colonists could create a space station in the oceans of those icy moons. The water layer protects the crew against powerful cosmic radiation. But that thing requires that the flow of water would be slow enough.  Juice's lift-off from French Guayana.  "ESA’s latest interplanetary mission, Juice, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Fren...