Planetary Science News

Apr 20, 2016 by News Staff

New images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from a distance of 240 miles (385 km) show two prominent craters on the surface of Ceres: Oxo and Haulani. This image is a mosaic of views that Dawn took in its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of 240 miles (385 km) from the surface of Ceres. In the center is Haulani Crater. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / PSI. The bluish material visible in this enhanced-color image...

Apr 18, 2016 by News Staff

As Europa — the sixth-closest moon of Jupiter and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites — orbits, its icy surface heaves and falls with...