The exhibition includes pages from Galileo’s log book where he records the moons’ shifting positions. The drawings mark a turning point in the history of astronomy because this is when Galileo ...
Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized they were moons orbiting the gas giant. And thus, Io, Europa and Ganymede became ...
An image of the far side of the Moon obtained by the Galileo Solid State imaging system ... but the quiet days of the far side are drawing to a close, whether scientists like it or not.