Jatan Mehta • April 17, 2018
Take a look at how electronics of spacecraft are built to survive the harshness of space environments.
Björn Jónsson • December 07, 2015
On the 20th anniversary of Galileo's orbit insertion around Jupiter, amateur image processor Björn Jónsson shares some of the mission's first images of Jupiter's iconic massive storm.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 24, 2015
People often ask me to produce one of my scale-comparison montages featuring the small moons of the outer solar system. I'd love to do that, but Galileo's best images of Jupiter's ringmoons lack detail compared to Cassini's images from Saturn.
Bill Dunford • August 06, 2015
Another round of posters to celebrate historic planetary missions.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 14, 2015
Now that I have a reasonable-resolution global color view of Pluto, I can drop it into one of my trademark scale image montages, to show you how it fits in with the rest of the similar-sized worlds in the solar system: the major moons and the biggest asteroids.
Björn Jónsson • February 18, 2015
Several global maps have been made of Europa, but amateur image processor Björn Jónsson felt they could be improved—so he decided to make a new one.
Bill Dunford • February 02, 2015
More examples of imperfect--but tantalizing--images from deep space.
Bruce Betts • April 11, 2014
Explore the icy moons of the Jupiter System and tour the Saturnian system in this video of class 8 of Bruce Betts' Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.
Bruce Betts • March 21, 2014
Examine the threat of near Earth asteroids and begin exploring the Jupiter System in this video of class 7 of Bruce Betts' Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 19, 2014
Simon Kattenhorn and Louise Prockter may finally have found subduction zones on Europa, which would it the only other place in the solar system besides Earth that is known to have active plate tectonics.
Bill Dunford • January 13, 2014
When sent from deep space, even imperfect images can inform and amaze.
Steve Vance • December 16, 2013
It's time to reassess Europa exploration, past, present and future. The Destination Europa! session at AGU, inspired by the eponymous website and movement, didn't take exactly that message as its theme, but it's what I got from the presentations. What an ELECTRIFYING meeting this has been for Europa exploration!
Emily Lakdawalla • May 17, 2013
A look at an older paper describing Galileo's possible sighting of individual ring particles orbiting Jupiter as companions to its inner moon Amalthea.
Emily Lakdawalla • March 01, 2013
Last week I trawled the archives to find all of Galileo's images of asteroid Ida; this week, I turned to Gaspra.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 22, 2013
While writing up the cruise-phase issues of the Galileo Messenger a couple of weeks ago, I came across a fuzzy montage of images of Ida that I had not seen before. So I decided to spend some time digging into the Planetary Data System to see if there were more images to be found. I found lots and lots pictures that I'd never seen before!
Emily Lakdawalla • February 05, 2013
It's taken me a year to face the emotionally draining task of reading and writing about Galileo's cruise phase as chronicled in the mission's newsletters.
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Emily Lakdawalla • December 18, 2012
My collage of all the asteroids and comets visited by spacecraft is probably the single most popular image I have ever posted on this blog. I've now updated it to be in color and to include Toutatis.
Ted Stryk • May 07, 2012
To celebrate ESA's selection of the JUICE mission to Jupiter, Ted Stryk produced a new global view of Europa from Galileo data.
Emily Lakdawalla • January 20, 2012
From 1981 to 1997, the Galileo mission published an approximately quarterly newsletter called the Galileo Messenger. It eventually ran to 45 issues, until the end of the Prime Mission. The first 20 were published before Galileo ever got off the ground. That period is the subject of this post.
Emily Lakdawalla • November 17, 2011
Among Europa scientists there are two warring factions: the thick-icers and the thin-icers. The question is how thick is the ice shell that overlies Europa's subsurface ocean (the existence of which pretty much everyone agrees on).
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