Bolton became part of the Galileo science team ... reveal the amount of oxygen in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Owen and Bolton realized that getting a radiometer inside the radiation belts could ...

Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis (Jupiter) / Scala / Art Resource, NY (Galileo) Inside a glass case was a plain-looking tube, worn and scuffed. Lying in the street, it would have ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths could fit inside ... Galileo first laid telescope-enhanced eyes on Jupiter ...

When Nasa's Juno probe approached Jupiter it caught sight of its four big moons - Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io. When Galileo Galilei's discovered these moons in 1610, it marked the birth of ...

SEE ALSO: Cassini Finds Evidence of a Hidden Ocean on Saturn's Moon According to the new study, NASA's Galileo spacecraft — which ended its mission by purposefully crashing into Jupiter's ...

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter, along with Ganymede ... That's why Clipper's electronics are inside a vault with dense aluminum ...

Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an impressive 140,000 miles away from the giant gas planet. This video shows the first inside peak of ...