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Looking Skyward: JUICE mission will take a new look at Jupiter

An artist's illustration of the JUICE mission spacecraft.
European Space Agency
An artist's illustration of the JUICE mission spacecraft.

Jupiter and its moons are the focus of a new European Space Agency mission. CAI's John Basile talks with Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about this new effort to understand a distant part of our solar system.

John Basile is the local host of All Things Considered weekday afternoons and a reporter.