NASA’s Voyager 1 acquired this image of a volcanic explosion on Io on March 4, 1979, about 11 hours before the spacecraft’s closest approach to the moon of Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL Jupiter’s Moon Io Io is one of Jupiter’s largest moons and the fourth-largest moon in o...
Jupiter's moon Europa, on the right, is of growing interest to NASA. Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Does a frozen moon that orbitsJupiterhave what it takes to support life? Scientists at NASA are hoping to find out. Europa is the fourth-largest of Jupiter’s moons and has a...
The Juno spacecraft has gradually shortened its orbital path around Jupiter on its extended mission, allowing it to move closer to the planet's moons. However, this increases the likelihood of collisions or damage from radiation.NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI ...
An incredible, reprocessed picture of Jupiter's moon Europa shows the mysterious natural satellite's amazing colors as they have never been seen before. The original photos of Europa were collected by the Galileo spacecraft, which explored Jupiter and its moons from orbit in the 1990s. NASA ...
“These data are another example of the great science Juno is capable of when observing the moons of Jupiter,” said Giuseppe Sindoni, program manager of the JIRAM instrument for the Italian Space Agency. JIRAM was designed to capture the infrared light emerging from deep inside Jupiter, prob...
moons Callisto / Europa / Ganymede and their origin. 2,405-kg JUICE built by Airbus for US$1.64B launched April 2023 and reaches Jupiter orbit July 2031. Its 8-year journey took 20 years to plan and hasfuel-saving flybysof Earth / Moon (Aug 19-20), Venus (2025), Earth (2026 / ...
The space agency is aiming to use data from Juno to learn more about Ganymede’s composition, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and ice shell. The spacecraft is also gathering measurements of the radiation environment that could assist future missions to Jupiter and its moons, of which there are believe...
One day afterlaunching a Starship rocketon a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on Monday, sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on a 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter to find out if one of its moons hosts a habitable sub-surface ocean. ...
NASA releases details about its robotic flyby, which rendered rare glimpses of the solar system's biggest planet and one of its moons. Images: New findings from Jupiter October 9, 2007 Additional Headlines X Prize Cup brings outer space to New Mexico ...
should be able to see Jupiter’s four bright moons, Ganymede, Callisto,Europa, and Io, shifting positions noticeably in the course of an evening. For Saturn, you should be able to see the brightly illuminated rings as well as the motions of Saturn’s moons, particularly the large...