Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...

Dave Dexter, composer of The Galilean Suite, four tone poems about the largest moons of Jupiter—Io, ... [+] Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. It's fair to say that of all the moons, it’s Io—the ...

Saturn, Jupiter’s outer neighbour, currently has 83 known satellites. The four larger moons mentioned above, also known as the 'Galilean moons', account for 99.997 percent of the total mass of Jupiter ...

And thus, Io, Europa and Ganymede became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter. Learn more about NASA’s current mission to Europa here. Multimedia editor Rob Landers wrote and verified this ...

Point them at Jupiter tonight—or any night during its bright opposition month—and you’ll notice four bright, white dots either side of it. You’re looking at its four Galilean Moons ...

Juno arrived at Jupiter in 2016 and has made over 60 orbits of the giant planet, but for the past few years it has been edging closer and making fly-bys of the large Galilean moons. On Dec. 30 ...

The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to NASA scientists intent on learning more about the innermost and third-largest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. For nine years, a spacecraft ...

NASA created an incredible visualization of the orbits of 64 of Jupiter's moons. First you see the four innermost small moons, then the Galilean moons. Then, zooming out from the planet ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

Get ready, Jupiter is about to put on an awesome sky show. On Sept. 26, the giant planet will be closer and brighter than it has been for the last 59 years. This fact has not escaped the attention ...

The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to NASA scientists intent on learning more about the innermost and third-largest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. For nine years, a spacecraft known as ...