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New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...
JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...
If an atmosphere is gaseous, it doesn't mean it's featureless and well mixed. In fact, Jupiter's atmosphere has structures scientists are still learning about.
The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...
NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...
The data suggests that about 10% of the moon’s surface has these remnants of slowly ... passing through Jupiter’s atmosphere on both legs of the journey. As the planet’s atmospheric layers bend the ...
Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere ... journey to one of Jupiter's many moons, where water is believed to exist beneath an icy surface.
Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The ...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean ... above the Martian surface, in a maneuver known as a gravity assist, which used the Red Planet's gravitational pull to slow ...
Because Io is so close to its massive host planet, the moon is subjected ... NASA's Juno mission gets look under surface of Jupiter, Io Years of data from NASA's Juno mission has provided ...
The image on the right shows the planet Jupiter to indicate the location of ... Hundreds of volcanoes dot its surface, which are powered by the tidal stretching and squeezing induced by the ...