A flyby this close to Europa’s surface will allow Juno to acquire some of the highest-resolution images ever taken of the icy moon. For context, the last mission to explore Europa in depth was NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which got within 351 kilometers (218 miles) of the surface on ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft just made theclosest flybys of Jupiter’s moon Iothat any spacecraft has carried out in more than 20 years. An instrument on this spacecraft called “JunoCam” returned spectacular, high-resolution images—and raw data are now available for you to process, ...
NASA’s Juno mission has become a favorite among space fans for its JunoCam instrument which often captures gorgeous images of thebeauty of the planet Jupiterandits moons. Earlier this year the spacecraft made its 49th close flyby of the planet, and NASA recently released some more stunning ...
The source of Io's extreme volcanism is believed to be the gravitational influence of its host planet, Jupiter, and that of its three other large Jovian moons — Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto— which torture the innermost Galilean moon, named because they were discovered by Italian...
next in line is the ice-crusted ocean world Europa, followed by massive Ganymede, and finally, heavily cratered Callisto. Galileo observed these moons change position with respect to Jupiter over the course of a few nights. From this observation he realized that the moons were orbiting mighty ...
A tantalizing prospect is NASA’s promise of a color portrait of Ganymede comprising images taken by Juno on its latest flyby. The space agency is just waiting to gather all the data fromJuno, which is currently around 435 million miles (700 million km) from Earth. ...
Juno captured this view as Juno completed its 31st close flyby of Jupiter on December 30, 2020. In 2022, Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed the image from raw data from the JunoCam instrument aboard the spacecraft. At the time the raw image was taken, Juno was about 19,900 miles...
See Jupiter’s moons Io and Europa in this stunning Juno image NASA is sending a lander to drill for ice on the moon’s south pole NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter, is 10 years old this week Watch NASA’s gorgeous Jupiter flyby with Vangelis soundtrack ...
These images from NASA’s Juno mission show three views of a Jupiter “hot spot” — a break in Jupiter’s cloud deck that provides a glimpse into the planet’s deep atmosphere. The pictures were taken by the JunoCam imager during the spacecraft’s 29th close flyby of the...