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Colorful swirling cloud belts dominate Jupiter's southern hemisphere in this image captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec 16, 2017.

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Noisy JunoCam Image

The graininess and horizontal lines seen in this JunoCam image show evidence that the camera aboard NASA's Juno mission suffered…

Jul 18, 2025
Juno Sees Turbulence in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

JunoCam captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the…

Apr 29, 2025
Juno’s JIRAM Captures Hots Spots on Io

Made with data from the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno, this animation shows the south polar region of Jupiter's moon…

Apr 29, 2025
Massive Hot Spot on Io

A massive hotspot can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated image taken by…

Jan 28, 2025
Three Views of Io’s Southern Hemisphere

Images of Io captured in 2024 by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno show significant and visible surface changes near…

Jan 28, 2025
NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Close-Ups of Polar Storms on Jupiter

The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this series of images as it approached the giant planet and swung…

Jan 27, 2025
The Islands of Loki as Viewed by Voyager 1 and Juno’s JIRAM

A map of infrared radiance in Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io.

Dec 12, 2024
NASA’s Juno Sees Changes at Masubi

The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft collected this visible wavelength image of Io's night side while the…

Dec 12, 2024
NASA’s Juno Captures Lava Channel Thermal Emissions at Zal Patera

The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft made this observation on Dec. 30, 2023, of a thermal emission…

Dec 12, 2024
NASA’s Juno Sees Glowing Lava on Io

The Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft observed an unprecedented glow from active lava at the base of…

Dec 12, 2024
NASA’s Juno Captures Thermal Emissions at Zal Montes

Glowing thermal emission from active lava breakouts are observed by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft on…

Dec 12, 2024
NASA’s Juno Sees New Flows at Zal Montes

A zoom of a Dec. 30, 2023, image from the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft shows Io's…

Dec 12, 2024
NASA’s Juno Sees Fresh Lava Flows at Zal Patera

This black-and-white image of Io's surface was taken by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during a…

Dec 12, 2024
Surface Changes at Nusku Captured by NASA’s Juno

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured these images showing surface changes at Nusku Patera (center in each sub-figure) on Jupiter's moon Io.

Dec 12, 2024
NASA’s Juno Sees New Feature East of Kanehekili

A new volcanic feature east of Kanehekili on Jupiter's moon Io was imaged by NASA's Juno mission during its 58th…

Dec 12, 2024
Surface Changes on Io

This global map of Jupiter's moon Io shows the volcanic activity and other surface changes detected by the JunoCam instrument.

Dec 12, 2024
A View of Loki (Artist’s Concept)

Lava islands within Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io are depicted in an artist's concept that's based on data from…

Dec 12, 2024
Juno Captures North Polar Region of Io

The north polar region of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno during the…

Dec 12, 2024
Io’s Interior (Artist’s Concept)

An artist's concept shows the internal structure of Jupiter's moon Io.

Dec 12, 2024
Europa Clipper’s Trajectory to Jupiter

On its journey to the Jupiter system, NASA's Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth,…

Nov 26, 2024
Europa Clipper Launch Team at JPL’s Mission Control

Mission members celebrate during the successful launch of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 14, 2024, in the Mission Support…

Oct 14, 2024
Portion of Europa Clipper’s Tour at Jupiter (Animation)

This animation shows how NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will orbit Jupiter and perform 49 flybys of Europa during its prime…

Oct 11, 2024
Hubble’s Ultraviolet Observations Reveal Hydrogen and Oxygen at Europa

Ultraviolet observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2012 illustrate two key elements in the thin atmosphere of Jupiter's…

Oct 11, 2024
Science Objectives of NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission

This graphic illustrates the main science objectives of NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

Oct 11, 2024
Creation of Europa’s Atmosphere (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept shows how scientists think the thin atmosphere on Jupiter's moon Europa is formed.

Oct 11, 2024
How REASON Will Penetrate Europa’s Surface (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept illustrates how NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will use radar to peer beneath Europa's ice crust to reveal…

Oct 11, 2024
Simulated View of Thermal Emissions from Europa

This image is a simulation of how NASA's Europa Clipper will understand which areas of the Jovian moon Europa are…

Oct 11, 2024
Map of Water Signatures at Europa’s Manannán Crater

Colors were mapped onto infrared data from NASA's Galileo mission in this image revealing locations around a crater on the…

Oct 11, 2024
Icy Moons in Our Solar System That May Have Oceans Now

Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer surfaces.

Oct 11, 2024
Conamara Color Closeup

This image shows a close-up view of terrain within the region of Europa's surface named Conamara.

Oct 2, 2024
Europa Clipper Approaches Its Target (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft approaching Jupiter and its icy moon Europa.

Sep 18, 2024
Europa Clipper Explores an Icy Ocean World (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter and passes over the gas giant's ice-covered moon…

Sep 18, 2024
Europa Clipper Zooms Over Its Target of Study (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft performing a close flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

Sep 18, 2024
Europa Clipper Spies Jupiter and Europa (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft silhouetted against Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon…

Sep 18, 2024
Europa Clipper: Equipped for Discovery (Artist’s Concept)

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft carries a suite of nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses its telecommunications system.

Sep 10, 2024
Europa Clipper Launch Ascent Timeline

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in…

Sep 10, 2024
Europa’s Mysterious Interior (Artist’s Concept)

Jupiter's moon Europa is smaller than Earth's moon yet may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all…

Sep 10, 2024
Europa Clipper: NASA’s Largest Planetary Spacecraft (Artist’s Concept)

With its solar arrays and antennas fully extended, the Europa Clipper spacecraft stretches out larger than a basketball court.

Sep 10, 2024
Preparing for Planetary Protection Analysis

A planetary protection engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepares samples for analysis on March 20, 2024.

Sep 9, 2024
Keeping Europa Clipper Clean

A planetary protection engineer carefully collects samples from NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft to verify its biological cleanliness.

Sep 9, 2024
Europa’s Mysterious Interior (Artist’s Concept)

Scientists believe that under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa a saltwater ocean exists that may contain more than…

Sep 9, 2024
Europa Clipper’s Elliptical Orbit

NASA's Europa Clipper is tasked with up-close study of Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa.

Sep 9, 2024
Europa Clipper’s Looping Journey to Jupiter (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept depicts the long, looping path NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will take to reach the Jupiter system.

Sep 9, 2024
Europa Clipper in the Shadow of Jupiter (Artist’s Concept)

This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit at Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy…

Sep 9, 2024
Europa Clipper Artist’s Concept

This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter.

Aug 27, 2024
Europa Clipper Solar Arrays Stowed for Launch

NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center…

Aug 27, 2024
Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays

NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center…

Aug 27, 2024
JunoCam Captures Jupiter on 62nd Flyby

This view of Jupiter was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's 62nd close flyby…

Aug 20, 2024
NASA’s Juno Mission Captures the Colorful and Chaotic Clouds of Jupiter

The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of the giant planet's northern hemisphere, during its 61st…

Jul 19, 2024
Juno Captures Lava Lake Chors Patera on Io

Infrared data collected Oct. 15, 2023, by the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft shows Chors Patera, a lava lake…

Jun 26, 2024
JunoCam Captures Io Spouting Off

The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured two volcanic plumes rising above the horizon of Jupiter's moon Io. The…

Jun 26, 2024
Europa Seen Up Close by Juno’s SRU

This black-and-white image of Europa's surface was taken by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the…

May 15, 2024
A JunoCam View of Europa

Jupiter's moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's close flyby on Sept.…

May 15, 2024
NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Jupiter’s Tiny Moon Amalthea

The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured these views of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant…

May 13, 2024
NASA’s Juno Catches 3 Waves of Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones

This composite shows views of Jupiter's northern polar cyclones in three different wavelengths of light – microwave, visible, and ultraviolet…

Apr 18, 2024
Io’s ‘Steeple Mountain’ (Artist’s Concept)

Created using data collected by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno during flybys in December 2023 and February 2024, this…

Apr 18, 2024
Looking Into Io’s Loki Patera (Artist’s Concept)

This animation is an artist's concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter's moon Io, made using data from…

Apr 18, 2024
NASA’s Juno Mission Captures View of Io’s South Polar Region

The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's moon Io during Juno's 60th flyby of Jupiter…

Apr 17, 2024
A View of Europa Clipper From Above

The viewing gallery above High Bay 1 in JPL's historic Spacecraft Assembly Facility provided members of the media with a…

Apr 11, 2024
JPL Shows Off Europa Clipper in the Clean Room

Members of the media visited a clean room at JPL April 11 to get a close-up look at NASA's Europa…

Apr 11, 2024
Explaining the Science of Europa

Europa Clipper Science Communications Lead Cynthia Phillips explains the science of the mission to members of the media in von…

Apr 11, 2024
Europa Clipper Rolls Into Thermal Vacuum Testing

NASA's Europa Clipper is seen being lifted into the Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024. Thermal vacuum testing, which…

Mar 27, 2024
Europa Clipper Prepares for Test in Space Simulator

Europa Clipper is seen in the 85-Foot Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024, before the start of thermal vacuum…

Mar 27, 2024
Europa Clipper’s ‘Water Words’

The art on this side of the plate features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves formed by…

Mar 8, 2024
Europa Clipper’s ‘Golden Record’

A commemorative plate mounted on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft features U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's handwritten In Praise of Mystery:…

Mar 8, 2024
Oxygen Production at Europa (Illustration)

This illustration shows charged particles from Jupiter impacting Europa's surface, splitting frozen water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen molecules. Scientists…

Mar 4, 2024
Europa Clipper With Instruments Aboard

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet…

Jan 30, 2024
System Checkouts on Testbed for Europa Lander Landing Gear

Engineer Matthew Cameron-Hooper performs a checkout on some systems of the Europa Lander landing gear testbed at NASA's Jet Propulsion…

Jan 17, 2024
Testing a Landing Gear for Potential Future Landing on Europa

Engineers test the mechanical landing system for the proposed Europa Lander project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept. 15,…

Jan 17, 2024
Engineers Prepare Europa Lander Landing Gear for Test

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare flight-like landing gear in the Europa Lander landing gear testbed in summer 2022.

Jan 17, 2024
Io Plume Captured by JunoCam

This JunoCam image of Jupiter's moon Io captures a plume of material ejected from the (unseen) volcano Prometheus. The image…

Dec 22, 2023
Imaging Io’s Volcanos With JunoCam

This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on June 15 by NASA's Juno.…

Dec 22, 2023
Testing Hardware for Potential Future Landing on Europa

On Aug. 17 and 18, 2023, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California tested the landing system for…

Nov 15, 2023
NASA’s Juno Mission Images Jupiter’s Belts and Zones

NASA's Juno captured this view of Jupiter during the mission's 54th close flyby of the giant planet on Sept. 7,…

Nov 9, 2023
Cylindrical Orientation of Jupiter’s East-West Jet-Streams

This illustration depicts findings that Jupiter's atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner and parallel to its spin…

Nov 9, 2023
Ganymede Grooved Terrain as Seen by Juno’s JIRAM

Processed data from the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) spectrometer aboard NASA's Juno mission is superimposed on a mosaic of…

Oct 30, 2023
Just in Time for Halloween, NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Eerie “Face” on Jupiter

As often occurs in views from NASA's Juno mission, Jupiter's clouds in this picture lend themselves to pareidolia, the effect…

Oct 25, 2023
Closing of the Europa Clipper Vault

Engineers and technicians are seen closing the vault of NASA's Europa Clipper in the main clean room of the Spacecraft…

Oct 24, 2023
A Portrait of Planet and Moon: NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Jupiter and Io Together

Just hours before NASA's Juno mission completed its 53rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 31, 2023, the spacecraft sped…

Sep 12, 2023
Powerful Antenna Installed On Europa Clipper

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft boasts its new 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna, after its Aug. 14, 2023 installation, in High Bay…

Aug 15, 2023
Europa Clipper’s High-Gain Antenna Installed

Engineers and technicians install Europa Clipper's high-gain antenna in the main clean room at JPL.

Aug 15, 2023
Europa Clipper Gets Its High-Gain On

Engineers and technicians use a crane to lift a 10-foot (3-meter) high-gain antenna as they prepare to install it on…

Aug 15, 2023
Jovian Family Portrait

Photo illustration of Jupiter and the three Jovian moons (Ganymede, Europa, Io – from left to right) NASA's Juno mission…

Jul 26, 2023
Io Over the Years

At top and bottom right, JunoCam images taken in May 2023 of Jupiter's moon Io show lava fields surrounding volcanoes…

Jul 26, 2023
NASA’s Juno Mission Observes High-Altitude Hazes in Jupiter’s atmosphere

As NASA's Juno spacecraft flew low over the giant planet's cloud tops, its JunoCam instrument captured this look at bands…

Jun 22, 2023
NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Lightning On Jupiter

In this view of a vortex near Jupiter's north pole, NASA's Juno mission observed the glow from a bolt of…

Jun 15, 2023
Io in Color and Infrared

These composite views depicting volcanic activity on Io were generated using both visible light and infrared data collected by NASA's…

May 15, 2023
4 JunoCam Views of Jovian Moon Io

This composite image of Io was generated using data collected by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during four…

May 15, 2023
4 Looks at Io Volcanoes

These infrared views of volcanic activity of Jupiter's moon Io were collected by the JIRAM (Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper) instrument…

May 15, 2023
Juno Getting Closer to Jovian Moon Io

This JunoCam image of the Jovian moon Io was collected during Juno's flyby of the moon on March 1, 2023.…

May 15, 2023
Europa’s Surface: Up-Close Topography

Another image of Jupiter's moon Europa captured in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo shows possible fault scarps adjacent to smooth…

Apr 14, 2023
Europa Close-Up

This view of Jupiter's moon Europa was captured in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The smooth slopes and nearby…

Apr 14, 2023
Juno Offers a Window Seat for a Jupiter Flyby

JunoCam, the color public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this sequence of images during its 46th close pass…

Dec 14, 2022
Juno Zooms in on Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede

JunoCam, the public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured these views of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a close pass…

Dec 14, 2022
JunoCam Close-Up of Europa

The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is shown in an image from the JunoCam color public engagement camera aboard NASA's…

Dec 14, 2022
NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Images of Europa

This view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa was captured by JunoCam, the public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, during…

Dec 14, 2022
Looking for Eruptions at Jupiter’s Moon Europa

NASA's Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter's intriguing, icy moon Europa during a close pass on September 29, 2022.

Dec 14, 2022
JunoCam Captures a Northern Jet on Jupiter

This image of a jet in Jupiter's atmosphere was taken by the JunoCam public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft…

Dec 14, 2022
NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Swirls in Jovian Storms

Swirling clouds on Jupiter are shown in an image taken by the JunoCam public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft…

Dec 14, 2022
NASA’s Juno Mission Explores the Magnetic Connection Between Jupiter and Ganymede

This animation illustrates how the magnetic field surrounding Jupiter's moon Ganymede interacts with and disrupts the magnetic field surrounding Jupiter.

Dec 14, 2022