PIA24026: RIME Instrument en Route to JUICE
JPL engineers and technicians follow COVID-19 Safe-at-Work guidelines as they transport the RIME transmitter and electronics on Aug. 19, 2020, for shipping to the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
 Mission:  Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) 
 Instrument:  RIME 
 Product Size:  3024 x 2987 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and shipped the receiver, transmitter and electronics necessary to complete the radar instrument for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission. Set to launch in 2022, JUICE is the ESA (European Space Agency) mission to explore Jupiter and its three large icy moons.

From front: JPL engineers and technicians Jeremy Steinert, Jordan Tanabe, Glenn Jeffery, and Robert Johnson follow COVID-19 Safe-at-Work guidelines as they transport the transmitter and electronics on Aug. 19, 2020, for shipping to the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

ASI is collaborating with JPL to build the instrument, called Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME). It is one of 10 instruments that will fly aboard JUICE.

RIME test photos can be seen here PIA24024 and here PIA24025.

For more information about the JUICE mission, visit: http://sci.esa.int/juice.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2020-09-21