Showing posts with label Juno. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Juno. Show all posts

Friday, March 16, 2018

NASA's Juno spacecraft strips Jupiter down to its underwear - Raw Story

The interior of Jupiter is just as intriguing as the planet's dazzling surface, with a swirling mixture of liquid hydrogen and helium at its center, vast atmospheric jet streams and exotic gravitational properties, scientists said on Wednesday. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/nasas-juno-spacecraft-strips-jupiter-underwear/

Monday, September 12, 2016

Jupiter's first close-up is 'like nothing we have seen or imagined before'

Highly anticipated data from Juno's first flyby of Jupiter has arrived and the data is shattering expectations.

After careening through space for five years, NASA's Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on July 4 of this year. With all systems go, the orbiter completed its first of 36 orbital flybys on Aug. 27. The craft's first six-hour-long sweep from Jupiter's north pole to south pole has yielded some startling results, including storms "unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system’s gas-giant planets," a peculiar hexagon at the north pole, the first-ever glimpse of the planet's southern aurora, and "ghostly-sounding transmissions emanating from above the planet."...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0902/Jupiter-photos-Like-nothing-we-have-seen-or-imagined-before-video










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