The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion, generating enough heat to cause plasma reactions on its surface. The data relayed about ...

The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion, generating enough heat to cause plasma reactions on its surface. The data relayed about ...

The Galileo spacecraft committed a sort of celestial suicide — literally burning up as it streaked toward the surface of the planet Jupiter. It's the end of a mission that took man one giant ...

This article originally appeared on Florida Today: On this date: Galileo discovers three major moons of Jupiter Europa was one of four moons discovered on Jan. 7, 1610, by astronomer Galileo Galilei.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system with 80 moons. Galileo was the first to discover the moons of Jupiter on this day in history, Jan. 7, 1610.

In the end, the Galileo spacecraft will get a taste of Jupiter before taking a final plunge into the planet's crushing atmosphere, ending the mission on Sunday, Sept. 21. The team expects the ...

The Galileo probe expanded on our knowledge of Jupiter's moon, Io, showing us just how hot and hellish the Jovian satellite could be.

On January 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei spotted three points of light that he later confirmed to be Jupiter’s moons. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at a discovery that led to the ...

THE spacecraft Galileo today made a close encounter with the largest of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede, marking the beginning of a grand tour of the giant planet. Galileo made its first fly-by of ...

Watch as Galileo's moons orbit Jupiter When Nasa's Juno probe approached Jupiter it caught sight of its four big moons - Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io.

Furthermore, the center shared that the four moons of Jupiter, commonly known as the Galileo moons, will be observable with the aid of a small telescope. In a press statement provided to KUNA, the ...