High-Energy Oxygen Ions Discovered in Jupiter’s Innermost Radiation Belts
Researchers find high-energy oxygen and sulfur ions in Jupiter’s inner radiation belts — and a previously unknown ion source. Nearly 20 years after the end…
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Ocean Physics Explain Incredible Cyclones on Jupiter
Images from NASA satellite of polar cyclones on Jupiter allow scientists to study the forces that drive them. Hurtling around Jupiter and its 79 moons…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft “Hears” Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede – Listen to the Dramatic Flyby of the Icy Orb
An audio track collected during Jupiter mission’s Ganymede flyby offers a dramatic ride-along. It is one of the highlights mission scientists shared in a briefing…
Juno Spacecraft Reveals Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Extends Deeper Than Expected Into Giant Planet
Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot (GRS) – a 16,000-kilometer-wide tempest that has been churning in the planet’s atmosphere for several centuries – extends deeper into…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Reveals What’s Happening Deep Beneath Jupiter’s Colorful Belts
Leicester study of data captured in orbit around Jupiter has revealed new insights into what’s happening deep beneath the gas giant’s distinctive and colorful bands….
NASA’s Juno Probe Offers First 3D View of Jupiter’s Atmosphere, Inner Workings of Great Red Spot
New findings from NASA’s Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet’s distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the…
Hubble Finds Mysterious Replenishment of Water Vapor on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Ice Sublimating Off the Surface Replenishes a Tenuous Envelope You would think that living half-a-billion miles from the Sun would be no place to call…
NASA’s Daring Lucy Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Poised To Launch
SwRI’s Levison, Olkin lead the mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is encapsulated in a protective fairing atop an Atlas V rocket, awaiting…
“No One Has Ever Seen This Before” – Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are Accelerating
The Winds at the Outer Edge Are ‘Winning the Race’ in This Enormous Storm System Listen up, race fans! The innermost lane no longer has…
Could Low-Altitude Magnetic Reconnection Power Jupiter’s Polar Aurorae?
Magnetic reconnection events less than 2 Jovian radii above the planet’s cloud tops could explain why Juno has yet to observe a source for Jupiter’s…
Something Big Just Crashed Into Jupiter!
In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) impacted Jupiter, which had captured the comet shortly before (and broken apart by its gravity). The event became…
International Observatories Assemble To Solve “Energy Crisis” on Jupiter
Sitting more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not expected to be particularly warm. Based on the amount of…
Jupiter’s Gigantic Super Polar Cyclones Are Here To Stay
Weizmann Institute scientists reveal how gigantic cyclones remain stable at both of Jupiter’s poles. Until recently, before NASA’s Juno space probe entered its orbit around…
First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede – May Hold More Water Than All of Earth’s Oceans
Astronomers have used archival datasets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the first evidence for water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon…
NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Mammoth Jovian Moon Ganymede
The spacecraft used its infrared instrument during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create this latest map, which comes out a decade after Juno’s…
A Few Steps Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Europa: Spacecraft Hardware Makes Headway
Take a closer look at the complex choreography involved in building NASA’s Europa Clipper as the mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa approaches its 2024…
Secret Behind Jupiter’s “Energy Crisis” Revealed – Puzzled Astronomers for Decades
New research published in Nature has revealed the solution to Jupiter’s “energy crisis,” which has puzzled astronomers for decades. Space scientists at the University of…
10 Years Ago: NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Launched on Interplanetary Journey To Observe Jupiter
On August 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno spacecraft launched on a five-year interplanetary journey that took it to the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…