Why Is Juice Taking Sooo Long? Straight Lines in Space Are a Massive Waste of Energy
Juice: Why’s It Taking Sooo Long At their closest point in orbit, Earth and Jupiter are separated by almost 600 million kilometers (375 million miles)….
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Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon: Diving Into Io’s Fiery Puzzles With Hubble and Webb
Remote-sensing data will complement Juno spacecraft’s in situ observations. The Space Telescope Science Institute recently awarded Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) a large project to use…
Webb Space Telescope Delivers Unprecedented Insights Into Jupiter’s Moons
Groundbreaking observations by the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed hydrogen peroxide on Ganymede and ongoing volcanic eruptions on Io, enhancing our understanding of Jupiter’s…
Fiery Flyby: Juno’s Close Encounter With Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, Io
The spinning, solar-powered spacecraft will take another look at the fiery Jovian moon on July 30. When NASA’s Juno mission flies by Jupiter’s fiery moon…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Encounters Giant Swirling Waves at the Edge of Jupiter’s Magnetosphere
Waves produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities transfer energy in the solar system. A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at…
Stunning Image of Jupiter’s Atmosphere Captured by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Reveals High-Altitude Hazes
On March 1, 2023, NASA’s Juno mission completed its 49th close flyby of Jupiter. As the spacecraft flew low over the giant planet’s cloud tops,…
In a Flash: NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Lightning on Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a lightning bolt at Jupiter’s north pole, likely originating from ammonia-water solution clouds, unlike Earth’s water cloud-based lightning. In this view…
Jupiter Bound: Juice Spacecraft Deployments Complete
Flight controllers at ESA’s mission control center in Germany were busy last week, working with instrument teams on the final deployments to prepare ESA’s Jupiter…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Makes Closest-Ever Flyby of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
The gas giant orbiter has flown over 510 million miles and also documented close encounters with three of Jupiter’s four largest moons. NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
Crazy Mystery of Jupiter’s Stunning Color Changes Finally Solved?
Researchers have used NASA’s Juno mission data to suggest that Jupiter’s changing stripes could be caused by torsional oscillations in the planet’s magnetic field. These…
Icy Enigma Unveiled: Researchers Crack the Code of Jupiter and Saturn’s Moons’ Radar Signatures
Scientists unveil solutions to enigmatic radar characteristics of Jupiter and Saturn’s moons A collaborative investigation led by Dr. Jason Hofgartner, Senior Research Scientist at the…
Celestial Spectacular: Top Planetary Events to Observe in May
The second half of May offers great stargazing opportunities. On May 17, Jupiter and a crescent moon will be visible together before sunrise. From May…
Don’t Miss: Moon Occults Jupiter – Ideal Viewing From North America
Be sure to set your alarm for early Wednesday morning, as the Moon occults the King of Planets. If you watch the sky long enough,…
Don’t Miss: “Peak Venus” and Jupiter Occultation
What are some skywatching highlights in May 2023? Venus reaches its highest point in the evening sky for the year, while Jupiter disappears behind the…
Icy Moonquakes: Explaining the Mysterious Smooth Terrain of Icy Moons
A new NASA study offers an explanation of how quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on moons circling Jupiter and Saturn….
JPL and the Space Age: Saving Galileo (NASA Documentary)
If any spacecraft could be said to have had nine lives, it was Galileo. At the time of its launch, this mission to Jupiter was…
Jupiter’s Icy Enigmas: ESA’s Juice Launches on a Cosmic Treasure Hunt
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 9:04 a.m. EDT on April…
Squeezing Secrets From Jupiter’s Moons: Juice’s Expedition to the Outer Solar System
ESA’s Juice mission will explore Jupiter and its intriguing Galilean moons — Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto — to study their hidden oceans, magnetic fields, and…
