What is so risky about Juno’s special maneuver? How close will the spacecraft get to the gas giant, and what does it hope to learn? Here are five quick facts summarizing the excitement around the recent Juno mission to Jupiter
Mysteriously, Amalthea appears to radiate out more heat than it receives fromthe sun, which NASA suggests may be due to Jupiter’s magnetic field or from tidal stresses. Amalthea is tidally locked to Jupiter in synchronous rotation — it always aligns with the planet along its long axis. Missi...
Though I am not a scientist or professional astronomer, I am anastrophotographerwho truly appreciates the wonder and mysteries of Jupiter. If you are curious as to how I managed to take a close-up photo of the planet Jupiter using my camera and telescope, be sure to read:How to Photograph...
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Wikimedia Commons Public domain In 2011, astronomers discovered numerous Jupiter-sized planets free-floating apart from any star. The team hypothesized that the rogue planets were ejected from distant developing planetary systems, and estimated that there may be twice as many...
Scientists only had to wait about a year, until 1980, to get close-up pictures of Saturn. Like Jupiter, the ringed planet turned out to be full of surprises. One of Voyager 1's targets was the F ring, a thin structure discovered only the year previously by NASA's Pioneer 11 probe. ...
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Wikimedia Commons Public domain In 2011, astronomers discovered numerous Jupiter-sized planets free-floating apart from any star. The team hypothesized that the rogue planets were ejected from distant developing planetary systems, and estimated that there may be twice as many...
Images of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.NASA, ESA, and A. Simon Interesting Facts About Jupiter Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. it is more than 11 times wider than Earth. Jupiter is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium and does not have a solid su...
Sources:https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/,https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/jupiterfact.html,https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/jupiter/20120906_jupiter_vgr1_global_caption.html First Published:June 2012 ...
Rebecca Harrington
Between them, the two spacecraft have explored all the giant outer planets of our solar system -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune -- as well as 49 moons, and the systems of rings and magnetic fields those planets possess. The current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission, was planne...