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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







