UmbralRaptor t1_j28t7uw wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:02 PM

No probes have landed on any of Jupiter's moons, though those sorts of images are occasional subjects of paintings and renderings.

SundaeThat6683 OP t1_j28tdm4 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:04 PM

Thats sad. What about Saturn ? :D

Harman318 t1_j28u2xb wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:09 PM

A probe has landed on Titan and taken pictures, but the sky is so foggy on Titan that you can't really see Saturn.

UmbralRaptor t1_j28u916 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:10 PM

Huygens was looking downwards because questions about the surface were more important. see eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)#Findings

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dittybopper_05H t1_j28ua0i wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:11 PM

Ironically, we did send a "lander" into Jupiter's atmosphere.

But it didn't have a camera... :-(

ShadowTsukino t1_j28tdl5 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:04 PM

We have not landed a probe on any of Jupiter's moons, so there wouldn't be any actual photos. You're going to have to be content with an artist's vision of it.

dromni t1_j28vuwi wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:23 PM

As others pointed we never landed probes in any of the Jovian moons. The closest thing that we have is Juno's pictures from when it got less than 400 Km from Europa's surface. Galileo made a slightly closer flyby in 2000 but the cameras were pointing to the surface it seems.

DemSkilzDudes t1_j28wh9n wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:28 PM

Nothing has landed on the moons, but I think the Cassini pictures of Io and Europa during its flyby would be quite close

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