Galileo launched in 1989 from the payload bay of the space shuttle Atlantis and arrived at Jupiter in 1995. It was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter and the first to send a probe into its ...

Galileo. Galileo was a spacecraft sent to explore Jupiter back in 1989, ... In 1974, scientists sent a $260 million probe into space to study the Sun and solar processes.

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be ...

Galileo to ACS3: How NASA’s solar ... The solar sail could powerfully enhance our ability to reach distant regions of space, even allowing us to send a probe to another star.

This week, University of Ferrerra researchers reported on the evolution of European skin, eye and hair pigmentation over the last 45,000 years. A re-examination of Galileo space probe data ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io.. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

Evidence of Europa's gigantic global ocean of liquid saltwater beneath its frozen crust first came to light during Nasa's 1996 Galileo fly-by mission which revealed the moon had its own magnetic ...