Jupiter

We Just Learned A Lot Of Unexpected Things About Jupiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2017
Forget everything you knew about gas giants, because based on the latest results from the Juno mission, we were wrong. We were so wrong.

By David Aragorn
A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 29, 2017
Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.

By David Aragorn
We finally have the Juno spacecraft’s first results on Jupiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 27, 2017
Here are eight surprising things NASA has learned so far.

By David Aragorn
Does Jupiter Have a Solid Core?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 11, 2017
The gas giants have always been a mystery to us. Due their dense and swirling clouds, it is impossible to get a good look inside them and determine their true structure. Given their distance from Earth, it is time-consuming and expensive to send spacecraft to them, making survey missions few and far between. And due

By David Aragorn
Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 13, 2017
Mars can blame Jupiter for its small stature. The Red Planet may be much smaller than we expect because Jupiter’s gravity beat it up as it was forming.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Hubble Takes Close-up Portrait of Jupiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 7, 2017
On April 3, 2017, as Jupiter made its nearest approach to Earth in a year, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope viewed the solar system’s largest planet in all of its up-close glory.

By David Aragorn
Juno Spacecraft in Safe Mode for Latest Jupiter Flyby 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 22, 2016
NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode Tuesday, Oct. 18 at about 10:47 p.m. PDT (Oct. 19 at 1:47 a.m. EDT). Early indications are a software performance monitor induced a reboot of the spacecraft’s onboard computer.

By David Aragorn
Nasa announcement about Jupiter’s moon Europa won’t be to say that the moon has aliens, agency clarifies 0
- From Around the Web
- September 23, 2016
The company had announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had captured ‘surprising evidence of activity’ on Europa – which made many think that aliens might have been found.

By Around the Web Editor
Exquisite Venus-Jupiter Conjunction This Weekend 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2016
Venus and Jupiter had a wonderful dance in the sky this weekend.

By David Aragorn
New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2016
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of Jupiter, condensing as ice, according to a new study by NASA-funded researchers. The study reveals the freezing effects of Jupiter’s shadow during daily eclipses on the moon’s volcanic gases.

By David Aragorn