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Callisto, Jupiter's second-largest moon, may have a rocky surface with an ocean beneath the surface. If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a ...
Look east around 4 a.m. local time, just before dawn, to see the slender form of the crescent moon climb above the horizon.
In the 1990s, however, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured magnetic measurements near Callisto that suggested that its ice shell surface—much like that of Europa, another moon of Jupiter—may ...
Europe's JUICE probe will study three of Jupiter's icy moons, looking for signs of habitable sub-surface oceans. Latest U.S.
Jupiter moons Callisto and Ganymede are among the biggest in the solar system, and potential grounds for liquid water and alien life. NASA's JUICE mission will probe them for signs of both.
Callisto is second in size to Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. It is also the most heavily cratered. Callisto has become the object of more scrutiny recently due to the unexplained large amount ...
Callisto, despite being the second-largest of Jupiter's ridiculous number of moons and the third-largest moon in the Solar System, doesn't get a whole lot of attention.
Aug. 23 -- It's jagged with bright peaks of ice and it's full of holes. High-resolution pictures taken of Jupiter's moon, Callisto, reveal a place that has likely not seen any geological activity ...
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission (JUICE) ... of the moon’s surface, ... conducting 21 flybys of Callisto, Jupiter’s second largest moon.
This article was originally featured on The Conversation.. On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian ...
Since Callisto also has an intense ionosphere, the team decided to test their methods on 30-year-old measurements taken by NASA's Galileo mission. That mission launched in 1989 and scanned Jupiter ...