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Composite images from left to right are Io, a orange/yellow moon covered in volcanoes, Europa, is a light gray moon with a distinct rusty red coloration across a large portion of the surface, Ganymede, a large gray moon with bright white streaks on the surface and Callisto, a dark gray moon with bright specks across the surface.

Jupiter's moons: Facts about the many moons of the Jovian system

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference Explore Jupiter's 95 moons including the infamous Galilean satellites and the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede.

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Poet Laureate Ada Limón in a blue suit looking out over a NASA clean room

A poem for Europa Clipper: US Poet Laureate Ada Limón reveals ode to fly on NASA Jupiter moon mission

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

"It is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water..." Those words, by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, are part of an ode flying on NASA's Europa Clipper.

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illustration of a spacecraft with two wing-like solar panels extended from a gold, cube-shaped body.

Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe finishes deploying its instruments

By Andrew Jones published

Europe's JUICE spacecraft is now in its full flight configuration, six weeks after the flagship mission launched for Jupiter.

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two infrared photos of jupiter showing the planet's cloud bands in shades of red and orange.

Why does Jupiter change its stripes? Scientists may finally have the answer

By Stefanie Waldek published

Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, an international team has correlated the variations in Jupiter's bands to changes in the planet's magnetic field.

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Artist's concept of lightning strikes in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, with the blackness of space in the background.

Jupiter's lightning is strikingly similar to Earth's

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted short bursts that make up lightning bolts on Jupiter, showing that Jovian lightning works in much the same way as it does on Earth.

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Airbus Space's Airbus Robotic Telescope captured this view of Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe on April 20, 2023, when the spacecraft was nearly 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.

JUICE Jupiter probe spotted 1 million miles from Earth (video, image)

By Robert Lea published

An Earth-based telescope spotted Europe's JUICE spacecraft as it zooms toward Jupiter to study the giant planet's mysterious, icy ocean moons.

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illustration of spacecraft with large solar panels and antennas beside ganymede

Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe fixes antenna glitch in deep space (video)

By Mike Wall published

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, deployed its Radar for Icy Moons Exploration antenna today (May 12) after more than three weeks of troubleshooting efforts.

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an illustration of Jupiter's icy moon Europa

Europa: A guide to Jupiter's icy moon

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Reference Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter and one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter. See more facts about Europa and its history here.

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illustration of spacecraft with large solar panels and antennas beside ganymede

Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe has an antenna glitch in deep space

By Elizabeth Howell published

A European radar instrument was designed to penetrate ice on Jupiter's icy moons. But now the JUICE mission is having issues deploying an antenna key to sending data back to Earth.

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Bright scars on a darker surface testify to a long history of impacts on Jupiter moon Callisto

Callisto: Everything you need to know about Jupiter's second-largest moon

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Reference Callisto is thought to be a long dead world, with hardly any geologic activity on its surface. But an ocean may lie underground.

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