Galileo’s journey to the moons has begun for Joyce. Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—Jupiter’s Galileo moons. All three are made of ice. Juice will travel 660 million kilometers in eight and a half years and reach Jupiter’s orbit in July 2031. Travel with gravity assists to reduce travel costs. It is a technique that uses the…
Yes.. In a few days we will be able to see Jupiter, our giant planet, closer and brighter than it has been in the last 70 years. Directly opposite to the Sun..that is, Jupiter rises in the east when the sun sets in the west, overhead at midnight, and Jupiter sets in the west when…
Curiosity is because it is bigger than our earth.The storm, which is orbiting Jupiter’s equator at 432km / hr, is 356 years old. This is the biggest storm in our solar system. This is an electric storm. It has very long flashes of lightning.
The “flash” of the impact was large enough to be seen through the telescope from Earth.The size of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 16,350 km (April 2017). This spot is 1.3 times the size of Earth’s.There are other spots on Jupiter that are thousands of kilometers in diameter. Perhaps this “object” that might fall to…
Water vapor around Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. This amazing phenomenon was discovered by the Hubble Telescope. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System. The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere around Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. It has been found that vapor is formed as the ice sheets change from…
