ESA's JUICE spacecraft confirmed Earth is habitable. Here's why

[Admin]

JUICE successfully identified water and the building blocks of life in Earth's atmosphere. In doing so, the probe headed for Jupiter's moons confirmed that its instruments are working properly.

ESA's JUICE spacecraft confirmed Earth is habitable. Here's why : Read more

 

[Unclear Engineer]

I hope they also ran those tests on our Moon and found that it is not habitable. Checking for false positive is as important as checking for true positive, so there is nothing (less?) to quibble about when we get readings from Jupiter's moons.

 

[perseverance]

I hope they also ran those tests on our Moon and found that it is not habitable. Checking for false positive is as important as checking for true positive, so there is nothing (less?) to quibble about when we get readings from Jupiter's moons.

Is the trajectory of the JUICE will pass the Moon?

 

[Unclear Engineer]

Yes, see https://www.space.com/juice-jupiter-probe-earth-flyby-complete , which says

"JUICE reached our moon for its lunar flyby at 6:15 pm EDT (2115 UTC) on Monday (Aug. 19); this rendezvous directed the ESA spacecraft toward Earth. It reached our planet just over 24 hours later, at 6:56 pm EDT (2156 UTC) on Tuesday (Aug. 20). Planetary and lunar flybys are key for JUICE's journey to Jupiter because the gravitational tides of these objects can help slingshot the spacecraft toward its final destination, allowing for trajectory changes with minimal fuel usage."

 

[Questioner]

One has to do primary, seeming redundant, seeming 'stupid' tests & experiments to validate correctness of methodologies & presumed facts.

Entire consumer industries are built on single reported studies that no one can replicate.

Science journals don't like to publish replication studies because they aren't sensational.

Aberration is sensational and solid consistent confirmations are not.

Errors, fraud and confused logic are vastly more likely to become publicized headlines than solid reliable consistencies.

I say this as someone open to the possibility that some things may be inherently inconsistent.