While six spacecraft have visited and imaged Europa since it became one of the first moons found beyond Earth, the best evidence of a subsurface ocean was gathered by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft ...

The Voyagers provided the first detailed photos of Europa but from quite a distance. NASA’s Galileo spacecraft had repeated ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Europa's frozen, fissured surface, seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft, hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients ...

NASA’s former Galileo spacecraft still holds the Europa flyby record, passing within 351 kilometers in 2000.

NASA's Galileo mission, which launched into space in 1989 ... If true, that would make Callisto a close sibling to Europa, another moon of Jupiter. Though the existence of an ocean remains ...

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 ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which was designed to study ... Future missions like NASA's Europa Clipper and the European Space Agency's (ESA) JUICE are set to confirm whether this distant moon ...

Europa Clipper will perform wide orbits around Jupiter between ... Images of the icy moons acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft between 1996 and 2003 have shown how diverse the geological and ...