There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...
NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...
About the same diameter as Earth’s moon, the innermost of Jupiter’s four giant moons is covered in volcanoes, some emitting sulfurous plumes hundreds of miles into space. It’s been imaged by ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, ...
The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus. The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up ...
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Juice spacecraft detects life’s building blocks on Earth, prepares to do the same for Jupiter’s icy MoonsJuice, launched in 2023, will travel to Jupiter over eight years. Upon arrival, it will spend another three years researching ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for lifeThe main body - about the size of a camper ... The mission ends in 2034 with a planned crash into Ganymede - Jupiter's biggest moon and the solar system’s too. There's more radiation around ...
Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...
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