October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
..., understanding the formation of surface features and subsurface sounding of the icy crust over recently active regions. Callisto will be explored as a witness of the early solar system, trying also to elucidate the mystery of its internal structure...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...time analysing Jupiter’s other large icy moons, Ganymede and Callisto. For the study of the plumes on Europa, ...the rocky interior ESA’s JUICE will make flybys of Europa and Callisto, and also enter orbit around Ganymede. As currently planned, it ...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... under the surface of Mars, on moons orbiting the giant planets with a large subsurface ocean (Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Enceladus, Titan), and also deep under the surface of the Earth. Once it was realised that there...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... its JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - mission to study the ice-covered world along with Ganymede, Callisto and now NASA has given the go-ahead for its Europa Clipper spacecraft to probe it too. But...
21 September 2020
Jupiter could have 600 moons, a new study says
... Galilean moons that were independently discovered by their namesake Galileo Galilei in 1610; namely, Europa, Ganymede, Io and Callisto. These moons stand out due to their huge size; all four are over 3,100 kilometres (1,900...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... years making detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Data collected from the mission will be used by scientists to hopefully learn more about the...
