All of that, plus fuel, means the spacecraft tips the scales at approximately 13,000 lbs., which requires a bruiser of a ...

Dave Dexter, composer of The Galilean Suite, four tone poems about the largest moons of Jupiter—Io, ... [+] Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. It's fair to say that of all the moons, it’s Io—the ...

Jupiter’s largest moons, known as the Galilean moons, are known not only for their size but for their unique features. Discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, these moons—Ganymede, Callisto ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

In an image taken by Galileo in 1997, the region was barren ... Luckily, nobody is particularly close to a very big change on Jupiter’s moon Io, where a massive new volcano has been spotted ...

The manoeuvres will set up an encounter with Jupiter in 2031. Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS ...

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo spacecraft intentionally fell into Jupiter and disintegrated in the ...

Comparison with Galileo spacecraft imagery of the same ... NASA's Juno probe sees active volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io (images) — Jupiter's volcanic moon Io looks ...

Five years after the appearance of the great supernova of 1604, Galileo builds his first telescope. He sees the moons of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, the phases of Venus, and the stars in the Milky Way.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected a large new active volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically ... JunoCam to older ones taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1997.