In the end, it was the hint of life on an icy moon that doomed the Galileo spacecraft to a fiery death. This afternoon, the NASA spacecraft will end its 2.8-billion-mile odyssey with a suicidal plunge ...
LOS ANGELES - Since 1989, the camera on NASA's Galileo spacecraft has captured a comet slamming into Jupiter, volcanoes erupting on one of its moons and the first known moon orbiting an asteroid. On ...
Half a billion miles away, a lone emissary from Earth will carry out its own death sentence today when it screams into the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter at 108,000 mph and gets vaporized. The ...
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Jupiter and Saturn Revealed: How Long It Really Takes to Reach the Giants of the Solar System
Discover the epic journey to Jupiter and Saturn as we break down decades of NASA missions, from Pioneer and Voyager flybys to ...
Through a vast ocean, Jupiter's moon Europa is an exciting target for research in the search for life. Two space probes are ...
This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, ...
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...
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