Juice (short for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is a space probe that gained sentience. Originally meant to study Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa, he now spends his time "perpetually hanging out" with Nine and Ten. Juice is said to have began observing Earth sometime between the beginning of Game 27 (2080s or 2090s) and the perfection of the nanoparticle network (3500s).
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The real life Juice space probe was still in development when 17776 and 20020 were published. It was launched on the 14th of April 2023.
The images used for Juice in 17776 and 20020 and on this wiki are based on an outdated illustration of the space probe from before it was launched. At the time this image could be found on a NASA webpage.[1][2] The final spacecraft has a very different appearance, most notably with a more distinctively shaped solar array with cross-like formations.
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- ↑ Wikipedia lists this NASA webpage as the source on their mirror of the image at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JUICE_spacecraft_model.png
- ↑ That NASA webpage has since been taken down, but can still be accessed at https://web.archive.org/web/20170514060831/https://science.nasa.gov/toolkits/spacecraft-icons