Jupiter System
Jupiter System: Get the updated news on Origins of Jupiter, Juno Mission, Explosions of Jupiter’s aurora, Triple-Moon Conjunction, Jupiter Moon’s surface, Global Map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s Red Spot and much more….
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Nov 12, 2020New lab experiments re-create the environment of Europa and find that the icy moon shines, even on its nightside. The effect is more than just a cool visual. -
Nov 19, 2019An international research team led out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has detected the water vapor for the first time above Europa’s surface. -
Oct 10, 2018A recently reveals Ganymede, an icy moon of Jupiter, appears to have undergone complex periods of geologic activity, specifically strike-slip tectonism, as is seen in Earth's San Andreas fault. -
Jul 18, 2018This brings Jupiter's total number of known moons to a whopping 79 -- the most of any planet in our solar system. -
Jul 16, 2018Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft point to a new heat source close to the south pole of Io that could indicate a previously undiscovered volcano on the small moon of Jupiter. -
Apr 30, 2018Newly resurrected data from Galileo’s first flyby of Ganymede is yielding new insights about the moon’s environment. -
Aug 3, 2016Scientists have documented atmospheric changes on Io, Jupiter’s volcanically active satellite, as the giant planet casts its shadow over the moon’s surface during daily eclipses. -
Dec 26, 2015The Hubble Space Telescope picks up clues from Ganymede's thin atmosphere. -
Sep 12, 2015Tides flowing in a subsurface ocean of molten rock, or magma, could explain why Jupiter's moon Io appears to have its volcanoes in the "wrong" place. -
Jul 19, 2015Airbus Defence & Space in France has been selected as the prime industrial contractor for ESA’s Juice mission to Jupiter and its icy moons.
