Under the direct authority of the Directorate of Science, the Head of the Science Operations Department is responsible for the development of the science operations infrastructure under the Directorate’s responsibility, the operation of the Directorate’s missions once successfully commissioned, and the curation of all scientific data in the missions’ legacy phase. These responsibilities are discharged in full coordination with the Directorate’s Departments and Offices and as appropriate, with the Directorate of Operations (D/OPS).

In implementing its duties, the Science Operations Department is supported by the:

• Mission Management and Science Operations Division (SCI-SO);
• Science Operations Development Division (SCI-SD);
• Data Science and Archives Division (SCI-SA).

Field(s) of activity for the internship

The topic of the internship: Data tutorials for the JUICE monitoring and navigation cameras

The ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission launched in April 2023 is currently on a journey to the Jupiter system. Together with a multitude of scientific instruments, the spacecraft is carrying facility cameras.

This internship aims at evaluating and improving the data processing applied to the JMC and NavCam imagery raw data products as well as facilitating their use by the science community. JMC is a wide-angle camera using a colour filter array. NavCam is a panchromatic camera with a narrower field of view, producing higher resolution black and white data.

You will produce data tutorials to show users how to

• access the archived data from the Planetary Science Archive (PSA);
• manipulate those data products, including how to calibrate them further;
• generate practical examples of data visualisations.

Required Qualifications 

You must be a university student, preferably in your final or second-to-last year of a university course at the Master’s level and you need to remain enrolled at your University for the entire duration of the internship.

Additional requirements

The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these is required. Knowledge of another Member State language would be an asset.

• Interest in Planetary Sciences;
• Experience with image processing;
• Coding experience (e.g. python, java);
• Experience using Jupyter Lab;
• Experience with planetary imagery data sets;
• Good writing skills (English).