Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016. The Clipper's impending trip to Europa represents the most ambitious attempt to image the moon since the Galileo mission conducted ...

Amalthea, however, is tricky to spot even when you have a spacecraft. NASA's Galileo mission imaged Amalthea in 1999. Large impact craters are visible. American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard ...

She has participated in many of NASA's planetary exploration missions, including Galileo, Deep Space 1 and the Voyager mission to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. On the Voyager mission ...

A rotating, solar-powered spacecraft Juno was launched in 2011. Because of the Galileo probe experience, the mission seeks to obtain water abundance readings across large regions of the immense ...