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Peter Wurz Director of Physics Institute of the University of Bern, takes a pose prior to the broadcast of the launch of the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 rocket to the European spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana, on Thursday, April 13, 2023 at University of Bern, Switzerland. The European Space Agency's Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) space mission will begin its journey to Jupiter to explore the largest planet in our solar system and three of its more than 80 moons, the large icy moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. The University of Bern has contributed the NIM mass spectrometer to the mission and is involved in two other instruments: The Submillimeter Wave Instrument SWI and the Laser Altimeter GALA. (KEYSTONE/Anthony Anex)