Galileo Worlds: The Moons of Jupiter

Voyager's twin spacecraft: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were designed to study Jupiter and Saturn, and it was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets! It begins approaching a strange region of space, the region beyond termination shock, and exploring this new region at the outer edge of the solar!

In March 1979 the Voyager 1 unmanned spacecraft was approaching the great system of satellites surrounding Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system. Scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley had published the results of calculations they had made regarding conditions on Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four principal moons. Only days later they looked at the photographs that Voyager had sent back to earth and saw their predictions spectacularly fulfilled.

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