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Oct 25, 2023 · The shadow of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, is cast on the giant planet’s cloud tops. This image was captured by the JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently orbiting Jupiter ...
Ganymede is the only moon known to have its own magnetic field – something typically found on planets like Earth. The magnetic field causes auroras, or bright ribbons of glowing gas, that circle the moon’s poles. pioneer 10, 1973 , Jupiter's moon Ganymede appears as a fuzzy, yellowish ball against a black background in this image taken by ...
Jupiter's Moon (Hungarian: Jupiter holdja) is a 2017 Hungarian science fiction drama film directed by Kornél Mundruczó and written by Kata Wéber. It competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival .
Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years. The king of planets was named for Jupiter, king of the gods in Roman mythology. Most of its moons are also named for mythological characters, figures associated with Jupiter or his Greek counterpart, Zeus.
Callisto is Jupiter’s second largest moon and the third largest moon in our solar system. Its surface is the most heavily cratered of any object in our solar system. Images of Callisto captured by passing spacecraft show bright white spots standing out against darker regions. Scientists think the bright areas are mostly ice and the darker ...
Jan 8, 2010 · On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei's improvements to the telescope enabled humanity to see Jupiter's four largest moons for the first time. Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto-the so-called Galilean satellites-were seen by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter in late February 2007. The images h
Ganymede is the only Galilean moon of Jupiter named after a male figure—like Io, Europa, and Callisto, he was a lover of Zeus. The Galilean satellites retain the Italian spellings of their names. In the cases of Io, Europa and Callisto, these are identical to the Latin, but the Latin form of Ganymede is Ganymedes.
