On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited ...
MISE maps will help scientists understand Europa’s geologic history. “We started planning the mission based on observations from the NASA Galileo mission in the 1990s,” said Tom. During that mission, ...
And it's definitely not frozen solid. Something is moving underneath the ice. And so, the Galileo spacecraft was the first one that kind of got these really close up pictures of this. And they saw ...