October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... miles) from Earth in November 2026. The Jupiter orbit insertion is scheduled for October 2029 with an initial Ganymede swing-by performed just before the capture manoeuvre as an optimisation. The tour of the Jupiter system, as currently designed...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... and spend time analysing Jupiter’s other large icy moons, Ganymede and Callisto. For the study of the plumes on Europa...make flybys of Europa and Callisto, and also enter orbit around Ganymede. As currently planned, it will make two flybys of Europa, ...
21 September 2020
Jupiter could have 600 moons, a new study says
...by their namesake Galileo Galilei in 1610; namely, Europa, Ganymede, Io and Callisto. These moons stand out due to their...all four are over 3,100 kilometres (1,900 mi) in diameter and Ganymede, the largest Galilean, is the ninth largest object in the ...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... environments not just on Mars, but also on the Saturnian ocean-world of Enceladus or the icy Jovian moon Ganymede. The presence of liquid brines on Mars today is significant not just because of habitability, but also because liquid...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... system. At around 4,880 km, its diameter is only about two fifths that of the Earth - even Jupiter’s moon Ganymede and Saturn’s Titan are bigger. And although Mercury can appear as a very bright object when viewed...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... phenomena 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...
