Latest Moons of Jupiter Stories
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), will host a "Tech Talk for Investors" webcast, with corresponding slide presentation, on Wednesday, November 7, at 9:30 a.m. (PST). Please join Gary Orenstein, Senior Vice President of Products, as he discusses the impact of flash on data center infrastructure and the Fusion-io product portfolio. Following a brief presentation, a question and answer session with Gary and Dennis Wolf, chief financial officer,...
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), today announced that the company will participate in the following events with the financial community during the month of November: Fusion-io Tech Talk for InvestorsWednesday, November 7, 2012, 9:30 a.m. (PT)Dennis P. Wolf, CFOGary M. Orenstein, SVP, Products Credit Suisse Annual Technology ConferencePhoenix, ArizonaTuesday, November 27, 2012, 4:00 p.m. (MT)David A. Flynn, CEODennis P. Wolf, CFO Live webcasts of...
PHOENIX, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IO, the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services, today announced it has raised $90 million in equity from a group led by New World Ventures, a Chicago-based venture capital firm focused on technology innovations that fundamentally change markets. Existing IO investors also participated in the funding. "From the moment we saw this product, we knew it would revolutionize the industry," said Chris Girgenti,...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronomers reported at the European Planetary Science Congress that they have produced the first amateur albedo map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This map shows off the higher areas of reflectivity on an object's surface, recording where material is bright or darker in areas. The map developed by the astronomers closely aligns with professional images of Ganymede's surface, showing off features like Phrygia Sulcus and the Nicholson...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Researchers announced at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid on Tuesday that the liquid water found on one of Jupiter's moons may not always be in that state. Europa is believed to be hosting a subsurface ocean of liquid water beneath, but a new study suggests that this water does not stay in this liquid state for longer than a few tens of thousands of years. Astronomers believe the moon contains a water shell about 62...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Russian space agency is considering participating in a developing project to send a spacecraft to Jupiter. The European Space Agency (ESA) is starting-up the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) project, and Russian scientists are considering the possibility of participating, according to a Voice Of Russia report. Lee Fletcher from JUICE’s Oxford University scientific group presented the objectives of the mission at the...
A new study finds that the pattern of heat coming from volcanoes on Io's surface disposes of the generally-accepted model of internal heating. The heat pouring out of Io's hundreds of erupting volcanoes indicates a complex, multi-layer source. These results come from data collected by NASA spacecraft and ground-based telescopes and appear in the June issue of the journal Icarus. A map of hot spots, classified by the amount of heat being emitted, shows the global distribution and wide...
In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteria offer clues for the upcoming missions in the search for traces of life on Europa. It is not easy to find a place on Earth where ice and sulphur come together, supposedly like on Europa, Jupiter's moon. Nonetheless, this place has been located at Borup Fjord Pass in the Canadian High Arctic....
SAN DIEGO, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain systems characterized by folding, such as the Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains, have been intensively studied and debated since the 19th Century. The age-old problem of fold-mountain formation reduces to this question: How can one account for the "extra" surface area, contained within the continental boundaries, that observations reveal folded atop other layers? For decades, in the plate tectonic view, mountain-building has been...
Lee Rannals for RedOrbit.com The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a Jupiter probe to be its next "large class" space endeavor after a five-year-long competition. The JUpiter Icy moon Explorer (JUICE) has been approved at a meeting of member state delegations in Paris. The probe would be built in time for launch in 2022, and will take eight years to reach the Jovian system. JUICE is a nearly five-ton satellite that aims to orbit Jupiter's moon Ganymede, as well as make...
Latest Moons of Jupiter Reference Libraries
Satellite -- A satellite is an object that orbits another object. With sufficient tangential velocity, the object does not collide with the primary object it orbits, but maintains a distance from that object as the rate at which it falls towards that object is similar to the rate that it travels away, thus the object orbits the primary object and becomes a satellite. In other words: gravitational force serves as the centripetal force needed to make the object circle the primary...
Galileo Probe -- The Galileo probe was an unmanned probe sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons. Named after the astronomer Galileo Galilei, it was launched on October 18 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis and arrived at Jupiter on December 7 1995. Galileo's launch had been significantly delayed by the hiatus in Space Shuttle launches that occurred after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and new safety protocols that were implemented as a result forced Galileo to use...
Retrograde Motion -- Retrograde motion is the orbital motion of a body in a direction opposite that which is normal to spatial bodies within a given system. 'Retrograde' derives from the Latin words retro, backwards, and gradus, step. In the Solar system, mostly everything rotates in the same sense: all major planets orbit the Sun counterclockwise as seen from the pole star (Polaris). Most planets spin in the same sense, including Earth. The same happens with the orbital motions of the...
Planetary Ring -- A planetary ring is a ring of dust and other small particles orbiting around a planet in a flat disc-shaped region. The most spectacular and famous planetary rings are those around Saturn, but all four of the solar system's gas giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) possess ring systems of their own. The origin of planetary rings is not precisely known, but they are thought to be unstable and dissipate over the course of tens or hundreds of millions of...
Jupiter's Moon Himalia -- Himalia is Jupiter's tenth moon. Himalia is 110 miles (170 km) in diameter and orbits 7,000,000 miles (11,480,000 km) from Jupiter. Himalia has a mass of 9.5 x 1018kg. It orbits Jupiter in 250.5662 (Earth) days. Very little is known about Himalia. Himalia was discovered by C. Perrine in 1904. Orbital eccentricity is 0.15798. Orbital inclination is 27.63 degrees. Orbital period is 250.5662 days. Rotational period is 0.4 day. ----- NASA...
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