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Straight out of science fiction: NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures image of a dolphin on Jupiter’s surface
The NASA Juno spacecraft has once again amazed the world, capturing an extraordinary image of Jupiter’s atmosphere. This time ...
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Jupiter's moons hide giant subsurface oceans − Europa Clipper is one of 2 missions on their way to see if these moons could support life
On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...
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JUICE To Jupiter: The Ultimate Guide To 2023’s Most Exciting New Space Mission That’s About To Blast-Off
At Callisto, during 21 flybys JUICE will study its cratered surface, look for evidence of a subsurface ocean and change the angle of its orbit around Jupiter to help it get into orbit of Ganymede.
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What next for NASA's Europa Clipper? The long road to Jupiter and its moons
The spacecraft will be deorbited and sent plunging into the surface of Ganymede. By then, the data the spacecraft has collected during its decade-long lifetime may have brought humanity ...
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The GALA altimeter
When conducting measurements, GALA sends short laser pulses down to the surface of the icy moon currently under investigation, Europa, Ganymede or Callisto. At the surface, the pulses are reflected ...
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Galilean Suite: Listen To The Major New Classical Work Dedicated To Jupiter’s Moons
Ganymede, Callisto and Europa ... “It’s a big dead ice rock with the oldest surface in our solar system, but that’s fascinating to me because the only thing that changes it is other things ...
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The MAJIS imaging spectrometer
Organic compounds on Ganymede and Callisto? In addition to water ice, MAJIS will also identify non-ice compounds in the surface ice and map their distribution on the surface of Ganymede. The presence ...
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Jupiter’s moons hide giant subsurface oceans − Europa Clipper is one of 2 missions on their way to see if these moons could support life
But it is not home to large amounts of water. Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, in contrast, have icy landscapes. Europa’s surface is a frozen wonderland with a young but complex history ...