In search of alien life, European Space Agency to launch spacecraft to explore Jupiter

To find out if the ocean-containing moons of Jupiter can harbour life, a European spacecraft is poised to set out on a 6.6 billion kilometre voyage.The six-ton Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) probe, which is part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) largest deep-space mission to date, will be travelling towards the largest planet in the solar system while carrying ten scientific equipment.