Technology has radically changed the contributions that amateurs can make to the field of astronomy. Using a readily-available ‘hobby’ telescope, off-the-shelf camera and computer equipment, plus ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a rare dark-rayed crater on Ganymede, offering fresh clues about the moon’s icy surface, ...
Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have conducted a detailed reanalysis of image data from Voyager 1, 2 and Galileo spacecraft in order to ...
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NASA's Juno spacecraft captured vivid images of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a flyby on June 7. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Ganymede, a behemoth of an icy moon in Jupiter's orbit, was ...
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Since its discovery in January 1610, Ganymede has been the focus of repeated observation, first by Earth-based telescopes, and later by flyby missions and spacecraft orbiting Jupiter. These studies ...
Hot on the heels of the announcement that hydrothermal vents have been found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, we get another watery alien world announcement: Indirect evidence has been found for a salty ...
Today, NASA announced evidence that Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, contains a liquid water ocean floating beneath its crust. The discovery is a masterpiece of indirect detection, using Hubble Space ...
Image data reanalysis has revealed that ancient tectonic troughs are concentrically distributed across almost the entire surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Computer simulation results suggest that ...