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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just delivered some exciting discoveries from Jupiter and its fiery moon, Io. The new findings, ...
The spacecraft's closest pass that day brought it about 2,500 miles above Jupiter's cloud tops, according to NASA. The new photos reveal never-before-seen views of the planet's north polar region.
NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...
Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The ...
Under such, strong updrafts during storms in Jupiter's atmosphere would lift tiny particles of ice tens of miles above the clouds, where they mix with ammonia vapour. The latter works like ...
NASA’s Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter’s cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its ...
The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked fierce lightning, and found huge methane plume storms rising from deep beneath ...
In a new study published in Science Advances, a team led by planetary scientist Chris Moeckel from UC Berkeley offers a ...
The findings, which come after Juno has flown close to the planet to peer under its cloud-covered atmosphere, shed light on Jupiter's fierce winds and violent cyclones. On the fiery Io ...