... Jupiter's almost annual closest approach to planet Earth, so near opposition the gas giant offers earthbound telescopes ... Also seen in remarkable detail, Jupiter's icy Ganymede , the solar system's largest moon, is emerging from behind the planet ...
... Significantly closer and visible to Jupiter's lower left is Venus , appearing through Earth's atmospheric clouds as unusually ... On the far right, above the horizon, is our Moon, in a waxing crescent phase. ...
... s known satellites and the fourth largest; it is the second of the Galilean moons ... Europa is slightly smaller than the Earth'sMoon . ... Of the 61 moons in the solar system only four others ( Io , Ganymede , Titan and ...
... at about 2 pm EST) about the possibility of oceans under Jupiter 'smoon Europa ... of life exists beneath the fractured ice planes of Jupiter's smoothest satellite ... a relatively thin ice sheet covering the moon's surface , at least in some regions ...
... October 3, 1996 . Three Views of Jupiter's Io . Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . ... The Galileo team has just released three more photographs of Jupiter 's volcanic moon Io taken in June. ...
... October 18, 1996 . Jupiter's Auroras . Credit: J. Clark ( U. Mich .) et al., HST , NASA . ... Jupiter 's auroras are linked to its volcanic moon Io . ...
... February 18, 1997 . A Big Cliff on Jupiter's Callisto . Credit: The Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . ... In fact, an explorer crossing the surface of this large moon of Jupiter would need climbing equipment to pass this large ...
... Unlike the Moon, however, the craters are quite flat, lacking the ring mountains and central depressions common to craters on the Moon and Mercury . ...