On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

While Io was discovered by Galileo in 1610 ... On November 24th, the probe completed its 66th flyby over Jupiter's cloud tops, and on December 27th, a particularly close approach to the planet ...

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago ... NASA is poised to send a jumbo robotic probe called the Europa Clipper to see if the icy moon has the ...

On August 19th the probe will use the Moon’s gravity to ... Before now, only two spacecraft have orbited Jupiter: Galileo and Juno. Galileo found evidence of liquid water on the moons, while ...

The images were captured on the nightside of Io, illuminated only by reflected sunlight from Jupiter. Comparison with Galileo spacecraft imagery of the same area, just south of Io's equator ...

That is a moon of Jupiter. And as NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce ... longing to get a close-up look at Europa ever since NASA's Galileo probe flew by it in the 1990s. Amanda Hendrix remembers that ...

ESA said the Airbus-built probe was due to pass 750km from ... Following up on Nasa's 1990s Galileo mission to Jupiter, the ESA-led Juice mission will orbit the solar system's largest planet ...

Comparison with Galileo spacecraft imagery of ... in these close flyby photos from NASA's Juno probe — NASA Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter's volcanic moon Io like never before in spectacular ...

In a novel double manoeuvre, the JUICE probe will first use the gravity ... Following up on NASA's 1990s Galileo mission to Jupiter, the ESA-led JUICE mission will orbit the solar system's largest ...