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With storms constantly raging all over its surface and a Great Red Spot that’s been churning for centuries, Jupiter could be known as the storm capital of the solar system. Now NASA’s Juno mission has discovered two new quirks of these storms – shallow… Continue reading Strange lightning and “mushball” rain could rage in Jupiter storms
NASA has released the first images taken by its Juno deep-space probe of the north pole of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. Captured on December 26, 2019, the infrared images from the spacecraft’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument show… Continue reading Juno Jupiter probe finds glass-like ice on Ganymede’s north pole
Astronomers have discovered the intact, exposed core of a gas giant locked in a close orbit around a Sun-like star. The discovery will give astronomers a rare opportunity to probe the heart of an ancient alien world, and their findings could tell us mo… Continue reading Exposed core of ancient gas giant discovered orbiting Sun-like star
Astronomers have discovered the intact, exposed core of a gas giant locked in a close orbit around a Sun-like star. The discovery will give astronomers a rare opportunity to probe the heart of an ancient alien world, and their findings could tell us mo… Continue reading Exposed core of ancient gas giant discovered orbiting Sun-like star
Scientists have spent centuries pointing their instruments at Jupiter, and every now and then they make observations that not only further our understanding of the solar system’s largest planet, but astound us at the same time. Using what is known as t… Continue reading Ultra-sharp infrared images show Jupiter as a giant jack-o’-lantern
NASA has given the official go-ahead for the Europa Clipper deep-space mission to make a detailed survey of one of Jupiter’s largest moons. Scheduled to launch in about 2025, the unmanned mission can now proceed to its final design phase ahead of the building and testing of the spacecraft and its instruments.
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Jupiter is a gigantic ball of churning gas clouds, and that makes it hard to see what’s in the middle. It’s believed to be a relatively small, rocky core, but data from the Juno probe found that it’s less dense and more spread out than expect… Continue reading An ancient planet, 10 times bigger than Earth, may have crashed into Jupiter
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtakingly detailed view of the largest planet in our solar system – the gas giant Jupiter. The new portrait, which was captured on June 27, 2019, highlights the complex nature of Jupiter’s cloud surface, and showcases the gas giant’s most famous feature – the Great Red Spot.
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A new study by researchers at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, indicates that the subterranean world ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may be more Earthlike than scientists believed. Visible-light spectrographic analysis show that yellow stains on Europa’s icy crust are common table salt, suggesting that the Europan ocean may be similar to its terrestrial counterparts.
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