There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...
At a time when the dominant theory suggested that the Earth was at the centre of everything ... They are more commonly referred to as the Galilean moons of Jupiter owing to the fact that they ...
Blue Ghost, a lunar lander carrying 10 NASA instruments, successfully executed its first main engine burn as part of its 45-day journey to the Moon. Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is making steady ...
Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized they were moons orbiting the gas giant. And thus, Io, Europa and Ganymede became ...
17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1 ... reach temperatures hotter than those on Earth – many of them exceeding 1000 degrees Kelvin ...
The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander used one of its instruments to calculate a navigation fix at a distance of more than 205,674 miles (331,000 km) ...