On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Galileo ...
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Voyager's greatest discoveries: Volcanoes on Io & the solar system's portrait
The Voyager probes did the impossible. Witness their groundbreaking flybys of Jupiter and Saturn, where they discovered active volcanoes on a moon for the first time and revealed the secrets of the ...
Scott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, ...
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