The gas giant orbiter has flown over 510 million miles and also documented close encounters with three of Jupiter’s four largest moons. NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io on ...
MORE FROM FORBESIn Photos: See The Moon Eclipse Giant Planet Jupiter In Rare EventBy Jamie Carter Io is slightly larger than Earth’s moon and is being constantly tugged by the gravity of Jupiter ...
Ganymede is Jupiter's largest moon and is also the largest moon in the entire solar system. It is bigger than both Mercury and dwarf planet Pluto and only slightly smaller than Mars. The moon ...
In contrast, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has confirmed Jupiter's moon count at 95. The newly discovered moons of Saturn have currently been designated with numbers and letters.
Flight controllers at ESA's mission control center in Germany have been busy this week, working with instrument teams on the ...
Most of us know four moons of Jupiter, called the Galilean moons because they were first discovered by Galileo in 1610. Named for figures closely associated with Jupiter from Greek mythology, Io ...
In the red corner, Jupiter, the largest planet ... potential debates over what constitutes a moon. “The simple definition of a moon is that it’s an object that orbits a planet,” Sheppard ...
Along with studying Jupiter’s atmosphere and magnetosphere, the primary goal is to study the trio of moons and the water thought to be lying beneath their icy crusts, with a special focus on Ganymede, ...
Jupiter briefly ... the center's director, in an email to Mashable on Friday, May 12. Cassini captured five of Saturn's moons in 2011. A new study puts the latest moon count at 145.
By Jonathan O’Callaghan In the red corner, Jupiter, the largest ... debates over what constitutes a moon. “The simple definition of a moon is that it’s an object that orbits a planet ...
We are on the cusp of learning far more about the projected icy situation of the moon's permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs. Multiple nations are eying the moon's south pole with research teams ...
Jupiter will be covered first by the crescent moon's leading sunlit limb, with the moon requiring a minute or more to inch its way across the giant planet's face. Jupiter will reappear from behind ...
