Jupiter: First data from Juno mission reveals massive cyclones and auroras
7 years, 9 months ago

Jupiter: First data from Juno mission reveals massive cyclones and auroras

ABC  

The first close-up glimpse of Jupiter's poles reveals massive cyclonic storms — some as large as 1,400 kilometres in diameter — and powerful auroras. "You wouldn't recognise it as Jupiter at all," said Dr Jack Connerney of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, deputy principal investigator on the Juno mission, and lead author on one of the studies. Storms and powerful magnetic fields In the first study, Juno mission principal investigator Dr Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and colleagues investigated the giant planet's atmosphere and gravitational field. Unlike Earth, massive cyclones circulate around Jupiter's north and south poles Dr Brad Tucker from the Australian National University said the first data from the Juno mission help would formulate our knowledge of the planet for the next decade. The Juno mission The Juno space probe was launched on August 5, 2011 Its mission is to peer below Jupiter's dense cover of cloud to answer questions about the gas giant and the origins of our solar system It will observe Jupiter's gravity and magnetic fields, atmospheric dynamics and composition, and evolution The spacecraft, which is powered by solar panels, went into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016 Its highly elliptical orbit passes over the planet's poles, dives within 5,000 kilometres of its cloud tops, and then goes out again to a distance of up to 8.1 million kilometres On August 27 2016 it captured the first ever images of Jupiter's north pole.

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New spots discovered on Jupiter's poles can fit Earth inside them
3 months, 3 weeks ago

New spots discovered on Jupiter's poles can fit Earth inside them

India Today  

Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley have made a new discovery on Jupiter, revealing the presence of Earth-sized dark ovals at the planet's poles just as the Great Red Spot. The dark ovals, embedded in stratospheric haze layers capping Jupiter's poles, are typically found just below the planet's auroral zones. His analysis revealed eight southern UV-dark ovals between 1994 …

Fireflies on Jupiter: Juno makes first radiation map of Solar System giant
7 months ago

Fireflies on Jupiter: Juno makes first radiation map of Solar System giant

India Today  

Nasa's Juno mission has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by creating the first complete 3D radiation map of the Jupiter system. This innovative map provides a detailed view of the high-energy particle environment surrounding Jupiter, including the intense radiation near the orbit of its icy moon Europa. In addition to mapping radiation, Juno's instruments are providing rare low-light images of Jupiter's …

Juno captures hundreds of cyclonic storms raging on Jupiter for decades
8 months ago

Juno captures hundreds of cyclonic storms raging on Jupiter for decades

India Today  

During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a stunning colour-enhanced view of the giant planet’s northern hemisphere. The raw data for this image was collected by the JunoCam instrument when the spacecraft was approximately 18,000 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 68 degrees north of the equator. Eason …

Nasa's Juno captures two volcanic plumes rising above Jupiter's moon Io
1 year, 1 month ago

Nasa's Juno captures two volcanic plumes rising above Jupiter's moon Io

India Today  

Nasa's Juno spacecraft has once again soared past Jupiter's moon Io, capturing unprecedented data that could unlock the secrets of its volcanic landscape. The mission's team is particularly intrigued by the observation of two volcanic plumes rising from Io's surface during the flyby. They hope to determine whether Io harbors a global magma ocean beneath its crust and to understand …

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Captures Mysterious Lightning Glow On Jupiter
1 year, 9 months ago

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Captures Mysterious Lightning Glow On Jupiter

Hindustan Times  

One of NASA’s spacecraft caught a strange and surreal lightning glow inside a swirling vortex on Jupiter. Juno Spacecraft captured a strange green lightning on Jupiter Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. In 2016, the Juno spacecraft was dispatched to observe Jupiter and its moons, capturing its 31st close flyby of the gas giant on 30th December …

NASA's Juno probe snaps a stunning photo of Jupiter revealing the planet's true colours
2 years, 6 months ago

NASA's Juno probe snaps a stunning photo of Jupiter revealing the planet's true colours

Daily Mail  

A NASA probe has captured stunning new images of Jupiter that show the gas giant in its 'true colours'. The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colours and swirling patterns of Jupiter's clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5 2022 An approximately true colour and contrast image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from the PJ44_46 raw …

Juno flyby reveals stunning new images of Jupiter, sounds of its moon Ganymede
3 years, 3 months ago

Juno flyby reveals stunning new images of Jupiter, sounds of its moon Ganymede

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Images of cyclones at Jupiter’s poles intrigued Lia Siegelman, a scientist working with the Juno team who typically studies Earth’s oceans. “These are especially evident in high-resolution satellite images of vortices in Earth’s oceans that are revealed by plankton blooms that act as tracers of the flow.” Oceanographers are using …

NASA's Juno spacecraft reveals depth of Jupiter's Great Red Spot; here's all you need to know
3 years, 4 months ago

NASA's Juno spacecraft reveals depth of Jupiter's Great Red Spot; here's all you need to know

Firstpost  

In 2011, NASA had launched its spacecraft Juno to get closer to the gas giant. According to the latest research, the Great Red Spot, a circular storm that has been raging on the planet for centuries, extends into the planet itself. According to data gathered by Juno passing over the Great Red Spot twice in 2019, the Great Red Spot …

NASA’s Juno mission captures first closeup images of Jupiter’s largest moon in a generation
3 years, 9 months ago

NASA’s Juno mission captures first closeup images of Jupiter’s largest moon in a generation

CNN  

CNN — The largest moon in our solar system got its first close-up in more than 20 years on Monday. “We are going to take our time before we draw any scientific conclusions, but until then we can simply marvel at this celestial wonder.” This image of the dark side of Ganymede was taken by Juno's Stellar Reference Unit navigation …

Stunning photo of 'intensely dark' vortex on Jupiter is captured by NASA's Juno probe
5 years, 9 months ago

Stunning photo of 'intensely dark' vortex on Jupiter is captured by NASA's Juno probe

Daily Mail  

NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured a stunning image of Jupiter, with an 'intensely dark vortex' swirling across the surface. Scroll down for video NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured a stunning image of Jupiter, with an 'intensely dark vortex' swirling across the surface. The craft snapped the image during its 20th flyby of the planet on May 29th when Juno was …

NASA sent Juno to Jupiter in 2011. It got back works of art
6 years, 3 months ago

NASA sent Juno to Jupiter in 2011. It got back works of art

CNN  

CNN — NASA sent the spacecraft Juno to Jupiter in 2011. A south tropical disturbance has just passed Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot and reflects its orange haze from in these series of color-enhanced images from NASA. “The general theme of our discoveries is really how different Jupiter looked from how we expected,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator, from …

Jupiter in the rear view mirror: NASA's Juno probe captures stunning view of swirling storms
6 years, 5 months ago

Jupiter in the rear view mirror: NASA's Juno probe captures stunning view of swirling storms

Daily Mail  

NASA's Juno probe has revealed a stunning 'rear view mirror' view of Jupiter. Scroll down for video The image, captured in the final minutes of a recent close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a departing view of the planet's swirling southern hemisphere. At the time, Juno was about 44,300 miles from the planet's cloud tops, above a southern …

Lightning storms discovered on Jupiter surprisingly similar to those on Earth
6 years, 9 months ago

Lightning storms discovered on Jupiter surprisingly similar to those on Earth

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Now, in a new paper published in the journal Nature, scientists from Nasa’s Juno mission …

Nasa’s Juno reveals Jupiter’s interior in unprecedented detail
7 years ago

Nasa’s Juno reveals Jupiter’s interior in unprecedented detail

Live Mint  

Washington: 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. Data from Nasa’s Juno spacecraft, orbiting the solar system’s largest planet since 2016, is providing researchers with what they called unprecedented insight …

NASA'S JUNO MISSION TO JUPITER
7 years, 2 months ago

NASA'S JUNO MISSION TO JUPITER

Daily Mail  

The craft is expected to study the composition of the planet's atmosphere until 2025. Jupiter's 'Great Red Spot' is changing colour: Earth-sized storm that could disappear completely in 20 years is glowing an intense orange Researchers at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, show that Jupiter's 'Great Red Spot' is shrivelling at a rate of. Stunning image captured …

Jupiter glows like a jewel in these latest images sent by NASA’s Juno spacecraft
7 years, 2 months ago

Jupiter glows like a jewel in these latest images sent by NASA’s Juno spacecraft

India TV News  

The giant planet Jupiter, haunted by tumultuous gases, looked downright like a jewel in the sky in the latest images captured by US space agency NASA’s Juno spacecraft. "Each new orbit brings us closer to the heart of Jupiter's radiation belt, but so far the spacecraft has weathered the storm of electrons surrounding Jupiter better than we could have ever …

Want to see how a raging storm on Jupiter looks like? Here's an unbelievable NASA photograph
7 years, 4 months ago

Want to see how a raging storm on Jupiter looks like? Here's an unbelievable NASA photograph

India TV News  

Our solar system has always been a curious source of study with scientists discovering an astonishing fact every day. NASA's Juno spacecraft beamed back a stunning image of a massive, raging storm in Jupiters northern hemisphere, captured by the probe during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet. The colour-enhanced images shows a storm rotating counter-clockwise with a …

Juno and the Great Red Spot: First NASA images from fly-by of solar system's biggest storm
7 years, 8 months ago

Juno and the Great Red Spot: First NASA images from fly-by of solar system's biggest storm

ABC  

The first ever close-up images of Jupiter's gargantuan hurricane, the Great Red Spot, are beginning to trickle through from NASA's Juno spacecraft after it completed its historic fly-by a few days ago. Scientists are hoping the images — which will continue to be downloaded into the weekend — will open a new chapter in our understanding of the solar system's …

Check Out Juno’s Stirring Closeups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
55 years, 2 months ago

Check Out Juno’s Stirring Closeups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Wired  

Even if you're a total space junkie, your mental image is probably an orange and white-striped planet with a big red dot in the southern hemisphere. Jupiter's red spot—a storm with a diameter larger than Earth's—has been the planet's most conspicuous feature for centuries, and was definitely the answer to a question on your fifth grade astronomy test. The Juno …

The first results from the Juno mission are in – and they already challenge our understanding of Jupiter
7 years, 9 months ago

The first results from the Juno mission are in – and they already challenge our understanding of Jupiter

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Ten months after its nerve-wracking arrival at Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission …

Jupiter: Nasa's Juno spacecraft finds Earth-sized storms raging above the planet's poles
7 years, 9 months ago

Jupiter: Nasa's Juno spacecraft finds Earth-sized storms raging above the planet's poles

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Earth-sized storms are swirling violently above Jupiter's poles, Nasa's exploratory spacecraft …

Juno reveals details about Jupiter; colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia in the atmosphere
7 years, 9 months ago

Juno reveals details about Jupiter; colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia in the atmosphere

Firstpost  

Jupiter’s atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system’s largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant. Juno found cyclones as big as 870 miles in diameter swirling over Jupiter’s north and south poles, the research published in this week’s issue …

Jupiter’s mysteries: Juno mission first results, new images
7 years, 10 months ago

Jupiter’s mysteries: Juno mission first results, new images

CNN  

Story highlights First results from the Juno mission to Jupiter reveal giant cyclones and ammonia in the atmosphere Jupiter's magnetic field is 10 times that of Earth's and and twice as strong as anticipated CNN — Beneath its heavy cloud cover, Jupiter has been able to keep its secrets from astronomers. Jupiter from the poles doesn’t look anything like it …

Nasa's Juno probe releases spooky noises from Jupiter's auroras
8 years, 5 months ago

Nasa's Juno probe releases spooky noises from Jupiter's auroras

Daily Mail  

Eerie recordings captured by the Juno probe during its recent flyby Jupiter have been revealed. Radio emissions from Jupiter's intense auroras were snagged when the Juno spacecraft made its first orbital pass of the gas giant on August 27. Radio emissions from Jupiter's auroras were captured during the flyby The emissions were first discovered in the 1950s but had never …

Watch the end of Juno's five-year mission to the gas giant in a stunning time-lapse
8 years, 5 months ago

Watch the end of Juno's five-year mission to the gas giant in a stunning time-lapse

Daily Mail  

After five years drifing through space, the Juno spacecraft made history in July when it entered the orbit of the largest panet in our solar system. The video shows Juno arriving at the system, and being captured by Jupiter's powerful gravity. As the probe approaches the planet, the video shows some of Jupiter's 67 moons circling, but the planet hardly …

See Pic! NASA’s Juno sends back first spectacular image of Jupiter’s north pole
8 years, 6 months ago

See Pic! NASA’s Juno sends back first spectacular image of Jupiter’s north pole

India TV News  

NASA’s Juno sends back first spectacular image of Jupiter’s north pole NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, which show storm systems and weather activity unlike anything previously seen on any of our solar system’s gas-giant planets. The images were NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, which …

New images of Jupiter 'like nothing seen or imagined before'
8 years, 6 months ago

New images of Jupiter 'like nothing seen or imagined before'

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Jupiter's northern polar region is stormier than expected and appears bluer than the rest of …

Jupiter photos show unexpected weather activity at poles
8 years, 6 months ago

Jupiter photos show unexpected weather activity at poles

CNN  

Story highlights Close-ups of Jupiter's north pole show weather activity unlike anything scientists have seen on other gas giants Juno mission scientists have identified auroras, unexpected storm systems and even ghostly sounds on Jupiter CNN — Scientists have never explored Jupiter’s north pole – until now. NASA’s spacecraft Juno sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole – photographs …

Juno reveals that Jupiter’s north pole is ‘like nothing we have seen or imagined’
8 years, 6 months ago

Juno reveals that Jupiter’s north pole is ‘like nothing we have seen or imagined’

LA Times  

Seen from a different angle, Jupiter looks like a whole new world. After flying within about 2,500 miles of the planet’s cloud tops on Aug. 27, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent home unprecedented images of Jupiter’s north pole, revealing a stormy fluid-scape that looks as if it could be on a totally different gas giant. “The north pole of Jupiter …

Juno probe: Nasa spacecraft makes record-breaking approach towards Jupiter
8 years, 6 months ago

Juno probe: Nasa spacecraft makes record-breaking approach towards Jupiter

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Juno, the spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, orbited closer to …

Jupiter: NASA's Juno space probe makes closest approach yet to solar system's largest planet
8 years, 6 months ago

Jupiter: NASA's Juno space probe makes closest approach yet to solar system's largest planet

ABC  

NASA's Juno space probe has made its closest approach yet to Jupiter during the main phase of its planned mission to the gas giant, the US space agency's officials said. Travelling at 208,000 kilometres per hour, Juno swung within approximately 4,200 kilometres of the solar system's largest planet at 8:44pm last night, the closest any spacecraft has passed. Orbited by …

Mission Juno: NASA’s JunoCam Sends First Images of Jupiter
8 years, 8 months ago

Mission Juno: NASA’s JunoCam Sends First Images of Jupiter

The Quint  

JunoCam – the camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission – has sent the first image of Jupiter, as well as the images of three of its four largest moons.The spacecraft entered orbit around the king of planets on 4 July. The colour image shows atmospheric features on Jupiter, including the famous Great Red Spot, and three of the massive planet’s four …

Hello Jupiter! NASA Spacecraft Juno Arrives at the Giant Planet
8 years, 8 months ago

Hello Jupiter! NASA Spacecraft Juno Arrives at the Giant Planet

The Quint  

Hours before the encounter, NASA released a series of images taken last week during the approach, showing Jupiter glowing yellow in the distance, circled by its four inner moons. The fifth rock from the sun and the heftiest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is what’s known as a gas giant — a ball of hydrogen and helium — unlike …

NASA’s Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter’s orbit
8 years, 8 months ago

NASA’s Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter’s orbit

Al Jazeera  

The $1.1bn mission launched five years ago aims to probe the origin of the solar system before it aborts in 2018. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun to orbit Jupiter to investigate the origin of the solar system, the US space agency has said. The $1.1bn mission launched five years ago successfully entered the orbit of Jupiter, the largest planet in …

Jupiter's auroras captured by NASA's Hubble space telescope
8 years, 8 months ago

Jupiter's auroras captured by NASA's Hubble space telescope

ABC  

Earth isn't the only planet to have shimmering auroras — and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured Jupiter's in action. The images show the same phenomenon that occurs on Earth — the light waves produced by the interaction of the planet's magnetic fields with its atmosphere. On Earth, auroras are produced by powerful plasma storms of highly charged particles from …

NASA’s dangerous Juno mission: Unravel Jupiter’s secrets and solve the mysteries of life
8 years, 8 months ago

NASA’s dangerous Juno mission: Unravel Jupiter’s secrets and solve the mysteries of life

LA Times  

Late at night, when the halls around her were empty, Heidi Becker positioned her subject in the crosshairs of an electron-shooting linear accelerator. This time, its lethal gaze would be aimed at an early version of the star tracker aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which is set to enter Jupiter’s orbit on July 4. Jupiter “is the scariest place,” said Becker, …

Jupiter 'puts on fireworks display' as space probe approaches planet
8 years, 8 months ago

Jupiter 'puts on fireworks display' as space probe approaches planet

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. British astronomer Dr Jonathan Nichols, from the University of Leicester, who heads the Hubble team …

NASA's Juno mission has reached Jupiter and here's why you should care
8 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Juno mission has reached Jupiter and here's why you should care

ABC  

For several years, a spacecraft the size of a tennis court has been hurtling towards Jupiter at a speed of 30 km per second. Cloaked in lethal clouds that hide its interior, and surrounded by the most dangerous radiation belt in the solar system, getting Juno in the right place at the right times to dissect Jupiter's innards — without …

On Jupiter, never-ending auroras seem to be ‘throwing a fireworks party’ for approaching NASA craft
8 years, 8 months ago

On Jupiter, never-ending auroras seem to be ‘throwing a fireworks party’ for approaching NASA craft

LA Times  

On Jupiter, Fourth of July fireworks last year-round. “It almost seems as if Jupiter is throwing a fireworks party for the imminent arrival of Juno.” See the most-read stories in Science this hour » NASA’s Juno spacecraft is on track to begin orbiting Jupiter on July 4. As Juno approaches Jupiter, it is collecting data on the solar wind, which …

Juno probe beams back its first image of Earth as it uses the planet's gravity to slingshot its way to Jupiter
11 years, 5 months ago

Juno probe beams back its first image of Earth as it uses the planet's gravity to slingshot its way to Jupiter

Daily Mail  

Juno probe beams back its first image of Earth as it uses the planet's gravity to slingshot its way to Jupiter The probe sent the image despite unexpectedly going into ‘safe mode’ The Earth's gravity helped Juno speed up from 78,000 mph to 87,000 mph At its closest approach, it hurtled 350 miles above South Africa The probe is now …

Jupiter-bound Juno makes key manoeuvre – India TV
12 years, 6 months ago

Jupiter-bound Juno makes key manoeuvre – India TV

India TV News  

Pasadena, California, Aug 31: A Jupiter-bound spacecraft successfully fired its engine Thursday in the first of two crucial maneuvers intended to bring it toward Earth for a momentum-gathering fly-by. NASA officials said the Juno spacecraft, which is about 482 million km from earth, fired its main engine for just short of 30 minutes.Along with another engine firing set for next …

NASA Launches Juno Space Probe To Jupiter
13 years, 7 months ago

NASA Launches Juno Space Probe To Jupiter

India TV News  

Cape Canaveral, Florida, Aug 6: American space agency NASA on Friday morning launched its $ 1.1 billion space probe named Juno to Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system. “As a solar-panelled mission, we have to keep those solar panels facing the Sun and we never go into Jupiter's shadow,” the mission's chief scientist Scott Bolton said. “Jupiter holds …

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