ESA's spacecraft Juice (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) is getting ready for its eigh-year journey to Jupiter, due to begin on 13 April.
The 6.6-billion-kilometre journey has been supported by British scientists, as well as the UK Space Agency, which has provided £9m of funding for the £1.4bn project.
Juice will be heading towards the solar system’s largest planet carrying 10 scientific instruments, in what is the ESA's biggest deep-space mission yet.
“Juice will take us to a part of the solar system that we know relatively little about, to study Jupiter, our largest planet, and to investigate whether some of its icy moons are home to conditions that could support life,” said Dr Caroline Harper, head of space science at the UK Space Agency.
One of these instruments in a magnetometer, known as J-MAG, which will measure the characteristics of the magnetic fields of Jupiter and its largest moon, Ganymede. Its development was led by experts from Imperial...