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Two Spacecraft Watch A Towering Inferno On Jupiter's Moon Io
March 30, 2001 — Two NASA spacecraft jointly observing Jupiter's moon Io this winter captured images of a towering volcanic plume never seen before and a bright red ring of fresh surface deposits surrounding its ... > full story -
Jupiter Radiation Belts Harsher Than Expected
March 29, 2001 — New measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate that any future spacecraft venturing very near Jupiter would be zapped by the radiation belts there even more severely than had been ... > full story -
Galileo Spacecraft Gets One Last Frequent-Flyer Upgrade
March 20, 2001 — The resilient Galileo spacecraft doesn't know when it call it quits. So, NASA has outlined the details of one last mission extension, which includes five more flybys of the Jovian moons before a ... > full story -
Io's Volcanoes Erase One Dating Method But May Provide Another
March 15, 2001 — The amount of lava gushing from individual volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io dwarfs earthly comparisons, and the pace at which lava is repainting Io's surface suggests a novel technique for ... > full story -
Scientists Find Evidence For Wet, Slushy Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon
March 1, 2001 — Planetary scientists studying Jupiter's icy moon Ganymede have combined stereo images from the Galileo mission with Voyager images from the 1970s and found provocative features on the moon. They ... > full story -
Stress, Chaos Form Tallest Mountains In The Solar System
February 27, 2001 — It takes a lot of stress, and a little chaos, to create some of the tallest mountains in our solar system. That is the theory proposed by earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in ... > full story -
Cassini "Sees" Invisible Gas Doughnut Around Jupiter
January 29, 2001 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft is helping scientists see the structure and hour-to-hour changes of a giant doughnut-shaped gaseous ring around Jupiter in unprecedented detail. The doughnut, called the ... > full story -
Cassini Camera Visualizes The Invisible During Jupiter Flyby
January 23, 2001 — A camera known as MIMI is helping scientists see the unseeable during Cassini's six-month swing around ... > full story -
University Of Iowa Space Physicist Fails To Find Evidence Of Lightning On Venus
January 18, 2001 — In an article published in the Jan. 18 issue of the journal Nature, University of Iowa space physicist Donald Gurnett says that a search for lightning on Venus in 1998 and 1999 using the Cassini ... > full story -
NASA's Cassini Listens To Eerie New 'Sounds' Of Space Near Jupiter
January 8, 2001 — One audio clip produced from radio waves that NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected near Jupiter was described last week by the Los Angeles Times as sounding "like a troop of howler monkeys battling ... > full story
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