Science news articles about 'galileo spacecraft'

... , to see and learn about GIOVE-B, the second Galileo in-orbit validation satellite, before it is packed ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft began what would become a 14-year odyssey of exploration 20 years ago this Sunday, Oct. 18.

... and Enceladus, Nimmo said. In 2000, for example, NASA's Galileo spacecraft measured an unusual magnetic field ... beneath the moon's surface. On Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft discovered geysers shooting ice crystals ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft began what would become a 14-year odyssey of exploration 20 years ago this Sunday, Oct. 18.

... of resolution and extended the coverage provided by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. Together with observations of the deep cloud structure by the 3-metre NASA ...

... , and consistent with, but less accurate than, the value from the Galileo spacecraft. The new measurement technique is sensitive to a mass ... . "But the pulsar technique will be the best for planets not being visited by spacecraft, and for measuring the combined masses of planets and their moons ...

... new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has revealed that beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic ... system. Galileo was launched in 1989 and began orbiting Jupiter in 1995. After a successful mission, the spacecraft ...

... Jupiter's powerful radiation belts. While the spacecraft itself is about the size of a Volkswagen and encased in a protective ... before it neared the middle of the planet, much as the Galileo spacecraft was crushed after it was crashed into the planet's clouds ...

... Europa and its ocean more habitable." The scientists focused on Galileo spacecraft images of two roughly circular ... their model is correct, based on observations of Europa from the Galileo spacecraft and of Earth. Still, because the inferred ...

... , to include the geologic map, the USGS mosaics, and all useful Galileo spacecraft observations of Io. This database, when completed ... from the February 2007 NASA New Horizons spacecraft flyby, to create a single online source ...

... it, which led to a different chemistry in its outer layers. When the Galileo spacecraft entered Jupiter’s atmosphere in 1995, it found the proportion of heavier elements (astronomers call these ‘metals ...