Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...

THE Galileo space probe has sent back stunningly sharp images of Jupiter's largest moon, revealing what NASA scientists said on Wednesday is a frigid surface covered with ridges, volcanic craters ...

In new images captured by ... lava that cover its surface," NASA said. Jupiter's four Galilean moons were discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610. NASA's Juno spacecraft launched ...

NASA's Juno mission has captured stunning new views of ... Jupiter moons that were the first celestial objects to be discovered orbiting an object other than the sun by Galileo Galilei in 1610.

NASA's Juno mission has made its 51st close flyby of Jupiter ... large moons, including frozen Callisto, are collectively known as the "Galilean moons" after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei ... Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized they were moons ...

Galileo Galilei – often referred ... and IV based on their distances from Jupiter. While the numeral convention surely didn’t stand the test of time, these Jovian moons are still referred ...

That man was scientist, inventor, and visionary Galileo Galilei. As darkness fell ... This mosaic shows the surfaces of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons images, as seen by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.

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 ...

Here’s how it works. Europa is one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, along with Io, Ganymede and Callisto. Astronomer Galileo Galilei gets the credit for discovering these Galilean moons ...

THE spacecraft Galileo today made a close encounter with the largest of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede ... of the planet-sized hunk of ice and rock. Pictures of Ganymede, which is bigger than the ...

Jupiter's four best-known moons are the Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. They are named Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, after figures in Greek mythology associated with ...