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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back majestic new photos of the...
Once every 53.5 days, NASA's Juno probe screams over Jupiter's cloud tops roughly 75 times as fast as a bullet.The spacecraft has used these high-speed flybys, called perijoves, to document the gas...
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NASA has released stunning new images of Jupiter's bizarre, storm-choked...
The Juno probe is orbiting Jupiter and unlocking deeply held secrets of the gas giant.Scientists at NASA used the spacecraft's photos to build a stunning new 3D animation of the planet's north pole.The...
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NASA's $1 billion mission to Jupiter has taken years of stunning images —...
All good things must come to a end, but Juno— NASA's $1-billion mission to study Jupiter like never before — has gotten a crucial life extension.NASA originally planned to destroy its tennis-court-size...
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Jupiter will be closer to Earth tonight than it has been in years — and you...
Jupiter will be at its most visible on May 8.The planet will be in opposition to the sun, which means it'll be on the exact opposite side of Earth to the sun. Your best chance of getting a glimpse will...
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NASA accidentally flew through a blast of alien ocean water in 1997 — and a...
Scientists looked at 20-year-old data from NASA's Galileo probe, which reached Jupiter in the 1990s.The researchers discovered that the robot had flown through water spraying out of Europa, an icy moon...
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This detailed map of Jupiter might be the most complete picture of the planet...
The ancient Romans once said Jupiter was god of the sky. So it's perhaps no surprise that the largest planet in our solar system is kind of hard to see in its entirety.Sitting more than 365 million...
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just beamed back even more jaw-dropping...
Juno, a tennis-court-size NASA probe at Jupiter, recently sent scientists a new batch of data, and the photos it included are even more stunning than the last set.NASA launched Juno toward Jupiter in...
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter mission was slated to meet a fiery end this summer...
Juno, NASA's probe at Jupiter, has orbited the giant planet for nearly two years.The $1 billion mission was scheduled to end with a crash into Jupiter's clouds after July 2018.However, NASA sources...
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NASA confirms its $1 billion Jupiter mission will cheat death for at least 3...
NASA's probe at Jupiter, called Juno, has orbited the gas giant since July 2015.The $1 billion mission was supposed to crash into Jupiter's clouds in July, but sources told Business Insider the mission...
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NASA's Juno probe has solved a 39 year-old mystery about Jupiter's lightning
NASA's Juno spacecraft has made an astonishing discovery about Jupiter's lightning strikes: They're similar to Earth's.Jupiter's lightning is clustered in the polar regions, while Earth experiences...
View ArticleAstronomers just discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter
Our solar system is already teaming with nearly 200 moons, and we just got 12 more to add to the list. A team led by astronomer Scott Sheppard out of the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered the...
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Scientists just found a dozen new moons around Jupiter — including one...
While searching for a hypothetical planet at the far edges of our solar system known as Planet Nine or Planet X, a team of astronomers discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter.That brings the total...
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just beamed back mesmerizing new photos of...
It’s been a busy and exhilarating couple of months for scientists who study Jupiter— and space nerds fascinated by the gas giant.Yesterday, a team of researchers announced the discovery of 12 new...
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NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft is probing Jupiter's deepest secrets — here...
NASA's Juno probe reached Jupiter in July 2016, and scientists' view of the solar system has not been the same since.The $1 billion mission has taken stunning images of the gas giant several hundred...
View ArticleThe worst storms on Earth are nothing compared to the weather on other planets
Earth has some pretty severe weather— hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis can be devastating — but we're better off living here than on other planets. Earth's worst storms are nothing compared to the...
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A breathtaking NASA video shows Jupiter's moons passing over Jupiter's Great...
NASA employee Kevin M. Gill created a video of Jupiter's moons with images taken from the late Cassini spacecraft, which plunged to its death in 2017.The video shows moons Io and Europa racing past...
View ArticleWhat would happen if humans tried to land on Jupiter
A special thanks to Kunio Sayanagi at Hampton University, for his help with this video.The best way to explore a new world is to land on it. That's why humans have sent spacecraft to the Moon, Venus,...
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A 'planet parade' is coming Thursday morning, when Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and...
Before dawn on Thursday, March 8, stargazers will be able to catch a "planet parade" in the early morning sky.Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Pluto will all line up, with the moon between Jupiter and...
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New images of Jupiter reveal clusters of giant cyclones unlike anything else...
New images from NASA's Juno probe show clusters of cyclones on the planet's poles.NASA says these weather systems extend far deeper than previously realized.The tightly packed cyclones haven't merged...
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot may have only 10 to 20 years left before it disappears
NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft flew over the Great Red Spot in July 2017.The probe provided the closest-ever photographs of the gigantic storm.However, planetary scientists think the Great Red Spot...
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