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...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... obtained by the Galileo spacecraft in June 1996 (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The portrait of Callisto is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration Does Europe also want independent access to space...
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...
