The recently-launched JUICE mission is on an eight year journey to Jupiter to explore its icy moons, which the spacecraft will study for signs of habitability.
, or JUICE for short, showed off a glimpse of its scientific abilities after deploying its magnetometer boom and recording a blip of its surrounding magnetic field. The JUICE magnetometer boom was deployed on April 21 when the spacecraft was around 1 million miles away from Earth, according toAdvertisementThe graph above shows the initial data collected by the boom, with each of its sensors represented in a different color.
The flat line shows the magnitude of the magnetic field before deployment and the curve that follows is the moment J-MAG was switched on. The two sensors are located up against the side of the spacecraft next to its thrusters, which are “quite magnetic, explaining the difference in the two field magnitudes,” ESA wrote in its statement. The field magnitudes take about two seconds after the boom’s deployment to stabilize, measuring the magnetic field of surrounding solar wind.
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