The map also reveals how the radiation is influenced by the smaller moons orbiting close to Jupiter's rings. The success of this project relies on data collected by Juno's Advanced Stellar Compass ...

More than 400 years after Galileo's discovery of Io, the innermost of Jupiter's largest moons, a team of scientists has produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jovian satellite.

JANUS will map the entire surface of Ganymede and, with data collected during flybys, map the surfaces of Europa and Callisto and map specific regions in high resolution. JANUS will also be used to ...

The first ever 3D radiation map of Jupiter and its moons has been created using low-light cameras aboard the Juno Spacecraft that have been tweaked to operate as radiation detectors.

But in many ways, this flyby was just a teaser for upcoming missions—especially Europa Clipper, which is scheduled to launch in 2024 for a series of close-up orbital encounters with the icy moon ...

In 2023, NASA will send a spacecraft to a metal world, samples from an asteroid will be dropped off on Earth, the Artemis II astronauts will be selected, and several new commercial rockets could ...

Jupiter already reigns as king of the planets — it's the largest one in our solar system. And now, the gas giant has the most known moons, too.Astronomers have observed 12 additional moons ...

As the moons have orbital periods of just a few days, transits occur hundreds of times per year. At opposition Dec. 7, you can catch Io beginning to transit at 4:30 a.m. EST.

Jupiter now has a total of 92 moons, more than any other planet in the solar system. Getty Images/iStockphoto Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Jupiter was about twice its current radius and possessed a magnetic field roughly 50 times stronger than today around 3.8 million years after the solar system's ...

As of February 2024, Jupiter has 95 moons. By comparison, Mercury, and Venus are moonless , Earth has one moon, and Mars has two. Uranus and Neptune have 28 and 16 known moons, respectively.