NASA’s Juno Spacecraft might meet an end of it’s journey to Jupiter as NASA calculates that it might crash into Europa
Like a boisterous older sibling, the gas giant both beat up and protected young Earth
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is best known for its colorful storms, the most famous being the Great Red Spot. Now astronomers have focused on another beautiful feature of the planet, using Hubble’s ultraviolet capabilities.
Jupiter and Saturn could have a layer of darkness beneath their colourful surfaces – previously unseen “dark hydrogen”.
It starts orbiting the deadly planet in July
We get a more in-depth view of Jupiter’s surface as radio waves travel through the colorful clouds.
Satellite Juno Spacecraft has flown past Jupiter, having gotten past the gravitational pull.
In certain sweet spots, the gravitational pulls of Saturn and Jupiter might combine to cause spectacular meteor showers. The effect requires clockwork precision – but it may be responsible for one of the best showers in recent memory.
Jupiter’s moon Io has a very different way of acquiring mountains than Earth does.
