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When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter
Using this telescope, Galileo peered up towards the constellation Orion on January 7, 1610. His target was the planet Jupiter – an object brighter than the surrounding stars. To his surprise ...
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On this date: Galileo discovers three major moons of Jupiter
On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...
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On this date: Galileo sheds new light on Io, Jupiter's hellscape moon
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.
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NASA Juno Spacecraft Snaps ‘Reddest Object In The Solar System’
Its orbit keeps it close to Jupiter. Jupiter’s wild atmosphere ... is tricky to spot even when you have a spacecraft. NASA's Galileo mission imaged Amalthea in 1999. Large impact craters are ...
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In Photos: NASA Juno’s Latest Jupiter Images Are Among Its Last
In an elliptical orbit of ... new volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, the most geologically active place in the solar system. The first close-up images of Io since NASA’s Galileo mission in 1997 ...