... Jupiter's Inner Moons . ... But this pair of near-infrared mosaics from the Hubble Space Telescope's NICMOS camera reveals moons, rings, and clouds of this distant gas planet. ... The problem was the brightness of the Moon. ... Surveyor 6 was not the first spacecraft to accomplish a soft landing on the Moon ... but it was the first to land and then lift off again! ... The moon Metis, 25 miles wide and about 80,000 miles from the planet, is the bright spot at the upper right. ... First page ] Prev. ...