The new age of planet hunting with JWST begins, this week, on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Alahmid of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found its first exoplanet, Jacob Lustig-Yager, one

of the leads on the team that confirmed the new world joins us to discuss the groundbreaking

discovery and what it means for the future of exoplanet hunting.

We'll share a short report on the Juno mission's planned flybyes of Jupiter's volcanic

moon IO, and our CEO, Bill Nye the Science Guy, will pop in to tell you how to spot the

green comet that's visiting our part of the solar system.

We'll close out our show with Dr. Bruce Betts, as he brings you up to speed on what's

going on in the night sky and what's up.

Now we turn to this week's Space Mission Briefings.

In April, the European Space Agency's Jupiter-IC moons explorer, or Juice Mission, will finally

embark on its journey to the Jovian system.

It will study Jupiter's potentially ocean-bearing moons, Ganymede, Europa, and Colisto.

The mission is all set to be shipped to its launch facility in French Guiana.

It's going to take about eight years for it to reach Jupiter, but we know that the

data will be worth the wait.

The Lucy spacecraft, which NASA launched in October of 2021 on a mission to study Jupiter's

Trojan asteroids, is still facing issues with one of its two solar arrays.

The mission team says that the spacecraft is still functioning well enough to do its job,

but their attempts to fix the array have been unsuccessful so far.

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