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Galileo tribute unveiled as Juice says 'Farewell, Europe'
Jan 22, 2023 (ESA)
As part of the final preparations a commemorative plaque was mounted on the spacecraft as a tribute to Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei who was the first to v...
Airbus finalises JUICE ready for its mission to Jupiter
Jan 22, 2023 (SPX)
The spacecraft has been at Airbus in Toulouse since August 2021 for final assembly and test. This included integration of the final instrument units and the lar...
Tumultuous migration on the edge of the Hot Neptune Desert
Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)
Using a technique combining the two main methods of studying exoplanets (radial velocities and transits), they were able to establish that a part of these exopl...
SwRI scientists find evidence for magnetic reconnection between Ganymede and Jupiter
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
"Ganymede is the only moon in our solar system with its own magnetic field," said Juno Principal Investigator Dr. Scott Bolton of SwRI. "The snapping and reconn...
SwRI delivers innovative instrument for NASA's Europa Clipper mission
Jan 06, 2023 (SPX)
The MAss Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration (MASPEX) instrument will be one of nine science instruments in the mission payload, which also includes Europa-U...
PSI Io Input/Output observatory discovers large volcanic outburst on Jupiter's moon Io
Jan 04, 2023 (SPX)
PSI Senior Scientist Morgenthaler has been using IoIO, located near Benson, Arizona to monitor volcanic activity on Io, since 2017. The observations show some s...
Mix a space juice to celebrate ESA's Juice mission
Jan 03, 2023 (ESA)
Juice the mission will be exploring gas giant Jupiter and its three large ocean moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. One of its key goals is to understand if t...
Juno spacecraft recovering memory after 47th Flyby of Jupiter
Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)
The issue - an inability to directly access the spacecraft memory storing the science data collected during the flyby - was most likely caused by a radiation sp...
Four decade study finds mysterious patterns in temperatures at Jupiter
Dec 20, 2022 (JPL)
Jupiter's troposphere has a lot in common with Earth's: It's where clouds form and storms churn. To understand this weather activity, scientists need to study c...
Comet impacts could bring ingredients for life to Europa's ocean
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
The discovery comes from a study led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, where researchers developed a computer model to observe what happens a...
Juno exploring Jovian moons during extended mission
Dec 15, 2022 (JPL)
"The team is really excited to have Juno's extended mission include the study of Jupiter's moons. With each close flyby, we have been able to obtain a wealth of...
The PI's Perspective: Extended Mission 2 Begins!
Dec 01, 2022 (SPX)
Hibernation, which takes place in spacecraft "spin mode," saves fuel and wear and tear on the vehicle, as well as mission budget. But even in hibernation, New H...
NASA's Europa Clipper gets its wheels for traveling in deep space
Nov 24, 2022 (JPL)
Engineers and technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently installed four reaction wheels on Europa Clipper, which will rely ...
Mars and Jupiter moons meet
Oct 17, 2022 (ESA)
Since arriving in orbit at the Red Planet in 2003, Mars Express routinely observes the planet's geology. It also monitors the planet's two moons Phobos and Deim...
NASA studies origins of dwarf planet Haumea
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
Nearly the size of Pluto, Haumea is strange in several ways. It spins faster, by far, than anything else of its size, whirling on its axis in only four hours. B...
NASA study suggests shallow lakes in Europa's icy crust could erupt
Oct 13, 2022 (JPL)
In the search for life beyond Earth, subsurface bodies of water in our outer solar system are some of the most important targets. That's why NASA is sending the...
Sharpest Earth-based images of Europa and Ganymede reveal their icy landscape
Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)
Planetary scientists from the University of Leicester's School of Physics and Astronomy have unveiled new images of Europa and Ganymede, two future destinations...
NASA's Juno gets highest-resolution close-up of Jupiter's moon Europa
Oct 06, 2022 (JPL)
The highest-resolution photo NASA's Juno mission has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter's moon Europa reveals a detailed view of a puzzling region of t...
Juno probe takes detailed photo of Jupiter's moon, Europa
Oct 03, 2022 (UPI)
The probe came within 219 miles of the ice-covered celestial body, one of the closest approaches by any spacecraft. The first image taken by the probe's Junocam...
Juno will perform close flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa
Sep 25, 2022 (JPL)
Such information could benefit future missions, including the agency's Europa Clipper, which is set to launch in 2024 to study the icy moon. "Europa is such an ...
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