On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope ... Europa and Ganymede became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter. Learn more about NASA’s current mission ...

Galileo Galilei – often referred to just as Galileo ... They are more commonly referred to as the Galilean moons of Jupiter owing to the fact that they were discovered by Galileo.

But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the ...

JunoCam’s sequence of images of the NASA Juno mission's encounter with Jupiter's moon, io, on 3 February 2024. Comparison of Galileo and JunoCam data showing emergence of new volcano on Jupiter ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Io has intrigued astronomers since 1610, when Galileo Galilei first discovered ... captured a volcanic eruption on the moon. Subsequent missions to Jupiter, with more Io flybys, discovered ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with ... The rocky moon, which was first discovered by the ancient astronomer Galileo in 1610, is named for a mythological woman ...