American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea in 1892. NASA’s Galileo spacecraft imaged the moon several times starting in 1996. Galileo’s work revealed impact craters and ...
above Saturn's largest moon. The probe's descent from its parent spacecraft, NASA's Cassini, took approximately 2.5 hours. When Huygens landed with a thud near the bright equatorial region of ...
Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn ... is his most famous space scene. In it, Saturn hangs over windswept snow ...
The international Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has executed the course correction that will send it to destruction at the end of the week. The probe flew within 120,000km of the giant moon Titan ...
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. Galileo followed ...
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. Galileo ...
The inspiration for these films come from the incredible images and sounds coming from the Galileo space probe. The four large moons of Jupiter were thought to be nothing more interesting than our ...