In December 1995, Galileo dropped an atmospheric probe designed to measure the elements in Jupiter’s atmosphere—specifically, the abundance of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and all the ...

Most radically, Bolton came up with a new way to solve the major puzzle left by the Galileo probe. That earlier mission to Jupiter had dropped a localized probe—which meant it may have sampled a ...

While Io was discovered by Galileo in 1610 ... On November 24th, the probe completed its 66th flyby over Jupiter's cloud tops, and on December 27th, a particularly close approach to the planet ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.