Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. ... Galileo scientists also are trying to determine the cause of the hole they found in Jupiter's magnetic field when the spacecraft was closest to Io. ...

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Galileo Finds Giant Iron Core in Jupiter's Moon Io . Jupiter's volcano-pocked moon Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes up half its diameter, scientists report in today's issue of Science magazine. The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io, leading to speculation about whether Io possesses its own magnetic field. If so, it would be the first planetary moon known to have one. ... Space History Galileo . ...

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... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

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Armagh Observatory, 24 July 2000: . The Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, has announced the discovery of a new moon of Jupiter, bringing to 17 the number of known satellites orbiting the giant planet. ... At that time, Jupiter was about 370 million miles from Earth, just about as close as it ever gets, and therefore a good time to search for any faint satellites. ... Last Revised: 10th August 2000 . ...

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Электронная библиотека астронома-любителя. ... библиотека . архив RSN . ... Ru.Space.News: . Июль 1998 . ... Дата: 21 июля 1998 (1998-07-21) От: Alexander Bondugin Тема: Today On Galileo - July 19, 1998 Привет всем! ... TODAY ON GALILEO July 19, 1998 The fifth encounter of the Galileo Europa Mission starts late today, seven months after the start of the spacecraft's mission extension. ... The first in the series was the last encounter of Galileo's primary mission. ...

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