On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 ...
From a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, surrounded by flourishing wetlands and within sight of the Atlantic Ocean’s wave-tossed shores, a mission set to explore another water world ...
On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited by a ...
A (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element-A for those who like their expansions) was launched, one of two demonstration ...
LOS ANGELES - Since 1989, the camera on NASA's Galileo spacecraft has captured a comet slamming into Jupiter, volcanoes erupting on one of its moons and the first known moon orbiting an asteroid. On ...
LOS ANGELES -- NASA's Galileo spacecraft was set to make its last flyby of one of Jupiter's moons early today, marking the likely end of the science-gathering part of its 13-year mission. Galileo was ...
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter next weekend to make sure it doesn't accidentally contaminate the planet's ice-covered moon Europa with ...
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...
Two experimental satellites are being developed for the Galileo System Test Bed – Version 2, which will make up the first phase of in the ‘in-orbit validation’ of the Galileo system. Both spacecraft ...
WASHINGTON (voa) – One of the most remarkable chapters in the history of planetary exploration ended Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 1857 UTC when the American spacecraft Galileo plunged to its demise ...
Half a billion miles away, a lone emissary from Earth will carry out its own death sentence today when it screams into the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter at 108,000 mph and gets vaporized. The ...
PASADENA— As obsessed with germs as the most fastidious of housekeepers, NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo into Jupiter next weekend to avoid the aging spacecraft's contaminating one of the ...
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