NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Exploring Jupiter’s Inner Moons During Extended Mission
After revealing a trove of details about the Jovian moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io….
After revealing a trove of details about the Jovian moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io….
NASA’s Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on Jupiter during its 40th close pass by the planet on February 25, 2022. JunoCam captured…
The most detailed images ever taken of two of Jupiter’s largest moons by a telescope on Earth reveal the cocktail of chemicals that make up…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this magnificent view of Jupiter during the mission’s 40th close pass by the giant planet on February 25, 2022. The large,…
NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere during the spacecraft’s 39th close flyby of the planet on January 12, 2022. Zooming in…
An audio track collected during Jupiter mission’s Ganymede flyby offers a dramatic ride-along. It is one of the highlights mission scientists shared in a briefing…
Astronomers have used archival datasets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the first evidence for water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon…
The spacecraft used its infrared instrument during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create this latest map, which comes out a decade after Juno’s…
Oxygen Found on the Frozen World Is Linked to Sublimating Surface Ice Though larger than the blistering planet Mercury, the Jovian moon Ganymede is no…
The Juno probe flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of both the…
The spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of the icy orb. The first…
The first of the gas-giant orbiter’s back-to-back flybys will provide a close encounter with the massive moon after over 20 years. On Monday, June 7,…
The gravitational push and pull by Jupiter’s moons could account for more warming than the gas giant Jupiter alone. Jupiter’s moons are hot. Well, hotter…
Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have conducted a detailed reanalysis of image data from Voyager 1, 2 and…
The planet Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field which forms the largest object in the solar physics. Observations of Jupiter’s magnetosphere in the 1990s…
Far across the solar system, where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. During that time,…
Far across the solar system, from where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. During that…
By watching the rocking motion of the two aurorae, astronomers have determined that a large amount of saltwater exists beneath Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. NASA’s Hubble…