The European Space Agency has launched a mission to Jupiter and its moons after it was postponed yesterday as a result of unfavourable weather conditions.
The six-tonne probe, named Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), was due to blast off on Thursday to the solar system's biggest planet to see if its ocean-bearing moons support life.
But weather conditions showed there was a risk of lightning, temporarily pausing what would have been the agency's first attempt to send spacecraft to orbit another planet's moon.
