This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...
The instrument is designed to capture the infrared light not visible to the naked eye emerging from deep inside Jupiter, as well as its moons – including not just Io, but Europa, where another ...
ensuring a smooth journey to the icy moon. NASA’s Europa Clipper is travelling through space, heading towards Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launched three months ago, it has 1.6 billion miles left ...
the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to go before it reaches Jupiter's orbit in 2030 to take close-up images of the icy moon Europa with science cameras.
But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the solar system: Jupiter. At mid-twilight, roughly 45 minutes after sundown ...
The instrument is designed to capture the infrared light not visible to the naked eye emerging from deep inside Jupiter, as well as its moons – including not just Io, but Europa, where another orbiter ...
A NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ever seen in the solar system, coming from a giant underground magma chamber on the "tormented" Jovian ...