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The Great Red Spot Plunge
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Space Photos of the Week: Juno Snatches a Shot of Jupiter's Swirling Storms
Every time Juno swoops down, it comes within one Earth diameter of Jupiter—and the photos are worth the risk.
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe has taken mind-bending new photos of the gas giant
NASA's Juno mission took incredible new photos during its tenth trip around Jupiter. The planet's clouds look like swirling hallucinations in the images.
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Jupiter Will Never Stop Surprising Scientists
For the last year and a half, the nasa spacecraft Juno has been circling Jupiter and collecting reams of data. Juno spends most of its time a good distance away from Jupiter, safe from the worst of the planet’s intense radiation belts. But once every orbit, the spacecraft comes swooping toward Jupiter and directs its instruments—protected by 400 pounds of titanium—toward the perpetually stormy clouds that cover its surface. Then it zooms back out.
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Nasa reveals stunning pictures of Jupiter like nobody has ever seen before
Jupiter is covered in intense, massive storms far more complex than anyone had expected, Nasa has revealed. The geometric clusters of cyclones that cover the planet's poles are just one of the various discoveries reported by scientists studying data sent back from Nasa's Juno spacecraft, which is circling the planet. The team has seen the cyclones churning in Jupiter's deep atmosphere in far greater detail than ever before
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A 'planet parade' is coming Thursday morning, when Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Pluto will line up — here's how to see it
It's a good month to be a stargazer or planet-watcher. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, peek outside before the sun comes up tomorrow. You may catch what many are calling a "planet parade." Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Pluto will all be lined up in the pre-dawn sky the morning of March 8, with the moon appearing between Jupiter and Mars in those early hours. You'll need a telescope to see Pluto, but if you've got one, Accuweather says you should also be able to check out the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. (You might even spot those moons with some nice binoculars.)
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Whoa, like, Jupiter is DEEP. Really, really deep.
Scientists studying Jupiter using data and observations from the Juno spacecraft just released four new papers on their results, and I honestly can't say what's cooler: The science, or the jaw-dropping images.
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Jupiter Storm Blooms in Rosy Photo by NASA Probe
A new photo shows a swirling maelstrom on Jupiter through rose-colored glasses.
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Flyover of Jupiter’s north pole in infrared
See what scientists saw this week at a meeting in Vienna. It’s a 3-D fly-around of Jupiter’s north pole, showing its central cyclone and the 8 smaller cyclones encircling it.
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Moon of Jupiter prime candidate for alien life after water blast found
A Nasa probe that explored Jupiter’s moon Europa flew through a giant plume of water vapour that erupted from the icy surface and reached a hundred miles high, according to a fresh analysis of the spacecraft’s data. The discovery has cemented the view among some scientists that the Jovian moon, one of four first spotted by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610, is the most promising place in the solar system to hunt for alien life.
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The awesome beauty of Jupiter captured by Juno, in 13 photos
For the past two years, the spacecraft has been taking photos of Jupiter. Here are the best shots. By Brian Resnick.
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We Finally Know What The Interior Of Jupiter Looks Like
When you spend almost more than $1 billion on a beautiful spacecraft, it can be a very nervous wait to see if everything actually pays off. But if and when it does, the results can be rather glorious. And NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just paid off in a huge way. One of the major goals of the Juno mission, which began in July 2016 when the probe entered orbit around Jupiter, has been to study the interior of this fascinating gas giant. We can see its amazing cloud tops, sure, but we really didn’t know what’s going on inside.
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How Jupiter May Have Gifted Early Earth With Water
When it comes to the early days of our solar system, Jupiter holds a dubious reputation. In some ways, the giant served as Earth’s protector, its gravity launching dangerous debris away from the rocky planets. At the same time, Jupiter may have hurled material inward as well, crashing hydrogen-rich asteroids and planetary embryos, or planetesimals, into crowded young terrestrial planets.
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12 new moons found orbiting around Jupiter
Scientists have found 12 new moons orbiting around Jupiter, in a breakthrough discovery about our mysterious neighbour. They include an object that scientists have referred to as an “oddball”. It is just one kilometre in size, and is flying in the opposite direction to many of the planet’s moons – and behaves in an entirely different way to any of the other 78 objects orbiting the planet. As such, it might be responsible for having smashed up many of the other objects that make up the moons around Jupiter.
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Astronomers just discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter
A team out of the Carnegie Institution for Science haven't just discovered one new moon, they've discovered 12. All around the planet Jupiter. And these moons are helping us understand why Jupiter has so many moons in the first place.
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Swirls and Colors on Jupiter from Juno
What creates the colors in Jupiter's clouds? No one is sure. The thick atmosphere of Jupiter is mostly hydrogen and helium, elements which are colorless at the low temperatures of the Jovian cloud tops. Which trace elements provide the colors remains a topic of research, although small amounts of ammonium hydrosulfide are one leading candidate. What is clear from the featured color-enhanced image -- and many similar images -- is that lighter clouds are typically higher up than darker ones. Pictured, light clouds swirl around reddish regions toward the lower right, while they appear to cover over some darker domains on the upper right.
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This nuclear-powered 'tunnelbot' will search for life on Jupiter's Europa
Scientists are designing a nuclear-powered "tunnelbot" that can penetrate through the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa and search for signs of life in its sub-surface ocean. Between 1995 and 2003, NASA's Galileo spacecraft made several flybys of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Several findings from observations of the moon pointed to evidence of a liquid ocean beneath Europa's icy surface.
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How planets die: When good Jupiters go bad
Jupiter is the Solar System’s most massive planet. It is 300 times more massive than Earth. Its gravity dominates the present-day Solar System (apart from the Sun of course). And during its early years it shaped the entire Solar System. Let’s go through the main ways in which Jupiter has influenced the Earth, starting before Earth was fully-formed...
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Hubble Found a Brand New Moon of Neptune And Nobody Realized It
Neptune has been hiding something. Near a group six smaller moons discovered in 1989 is a seventh one, called Hippocamp, that was just confirmed to be the 14th moon around the blue gas giant. Hippocamp has a strange and curious history. Here's the tale of its peculiar origin, and how it managed to hide out for so long.
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New Jupiter photo from NASA’s Juno spacecraft is utterly gorgeous
Our Solar System is full of planets and moons that are quite interesting, varying from dusty rock worlds like Mars to frigid collections of methane lakes like on Saturn’s moon Titan. But of all the objects orbiting the Sun, Jupiter has to be the most interesting to look at. There’s just so much going on in its swirling clouds that you could stare forever and never get bored.
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