The massive planet supports an extensive magnetosphere - the region ... First, the spacecraft will orbit Jupiter rather than Europa, meaning it will fly through - but not continually sit within ...

Furthermore, the presence of water-group pickup ions from Jupiter's moons, particularly Europa, has been observed, indicating the complex interactions between the moons and the magnetosphere [4].

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

NASA has captured the highest-resolution photo of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The image, which NASA released last week, showcases over 93 by 125 miles of surface region on the moon.

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to go before it reaches Jupiter's ...

During its two flybys of Europa, JUICE will search for pockets ... “We’re going to be spending a lot of time in Jupiter’s magnetosphere and we’re going to be coming up out of the ...

This highly stylized view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was created by reprocessing ... polar orbit to study the planet’s atmosphere and magnetosphere. It spends most of its time away from ...

Liftoff! NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is travelling through space, heading towards Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launched three months ago, it has 1.6 billion miles left before reaching its destination in 2030.

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...