NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. Before Voyager 1 flew by Io, scientists believed the moon to be a dead world much like Earth's moon. The mission ...

Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ... Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io, left, and Europa) on Feb. 13, 1979. Io is about 220,000 miles above Jupiter's ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacec ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons, now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa ... In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft zipped by the gas giant, taking ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent a command for Voyager 1 to power ...

The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon ... Given the temperature profile on Io, liquid H 2 S could form in areas beneath the surface, particularly if subsurface channels ...

Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption on Io, Jupiter’s most volcanic moon. The eruption site, detected on 27 December 2024, is fueled by a massive magma ...

Their name is Voyager, and they make up the most ambitious ... They will transmit pictures and scientific data as they fly close by Jupiter, the biggest planet, and Saturn with its rings.