New mysteries replace the old: the Galileo probe is sending surprises from the biggest planet in our solar system.(Jupiter)

From: Insight on the News | Date: December 23, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Images from the Galileo space probe are providing new information about Jupiter's four largest moons. The photos indicate that Ganymede has an ancient, cratered surface and that Io is evaporating as its volcanoes erupt.

The Galileo probe is sending surprises from the biggest planet in our solar system.

Any time anyone takes a close look at Jupiter, the experience is humbling and unsettling. This has been true since 1610, when Galileo Galilei wrote "The Starry Messenger," a brief treatise concerning four bright objects he saw circling the planet. (A man named Simon Marius actually ...

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