When it did, the spacecraft captured a startling image of a Jupiter solar eclipse as Ganymede passed between the Sun and the planet. Ganymede casts its shadow on Jupiter as the Juno spacecraft ...

A colossal asteroid, estimated to be 20 times larger than the one that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth, has left a permanent mark on Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. This ...

Apparently, NASA has. Over the weekend, NASA shared a 50-second audio recording taken of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon (and the largest in our Solar System). Earlier this year, NASA’s June ...

Close-up of the craters and furrows on Ganymede's surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI Aside from being the biggest of ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has again captured stunning images of Jupiter and its moon Io, providing more insights into the solar ...

Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears as a gray, mottled orb crossing the face of Jupiter ... [+] in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Sixty-seven orbits of Jupiter.

These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons, now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter ...

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 ...

Gigantic Asteroid Impact Shifted the Axis of Solar System's Biggest Moon Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

MAJIS can be operated in either push-broom or scan mode, depending on the requirements of different mission phases. The spatial resolution is up to 25 metres on Ganymede and about 100 kilometres on ...

That is why astrobiologists are increasingly turning their eyes toward icy bodies like the Jovian moons of Europa and Ganymede ... hunt for signs of life on Jupiter’s moon when it arrives ...