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Juice testing - down to the wire
Apr 06, 2023 (ESA)
Due to launch on 13 April to begin an eight-year journey to the largest planet in the Solar System, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, will spend three an...
Redness of Neptunian asteroids sheds light on early Solar System
Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)
The team of scientists from the USA, California, France, the Netherlands, Chile and Hawaii observed 18 asteroids sharing the orbit of Neptune, known as Neptunia...
Sabotaging Juice
Mar 29, 2023 (ESA)
Sat in a windowless office beneath ESA's Main Control Room in Darmstadt, Germany, Petr and Filipe have complete control over the Juice spacecraft and ESA's deep...
An explaination for unusual radar signatures in the outer solar system
Mar 27, 2023 (SPX)
"Six different models have been published in an attempt to explain the radar signatures of the icy moons that orbit Jupiter and Saturn," said Hofgartner, first ...
Hubble monitors changing weather and seasons at Jupiter and Uranus
Mar 27, 2023 (SPX)
Inaugurated in 2014, the telescope's Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) Program has been providing us with yearly views of the giant planets. Here are some ...
New Horizons team discusses discoveries from the Kuiper Belt
Mar 16, 2023 (SPX)
Launched in January 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto and its moons in July 2015, before conducting the first reconnaissance of a Kuiper Belt ...
New Horizons team adds AI to Kuiper Belt Object search
Mar 16, 2023 (SPX)
Nearly a century later, the team that famously explored the planet Tombaugh discovered is expanding its own search for new targets of discovery - and doing it w...
Study finds ocean currents may affect rotation of Europa's icy crust
Mar 14, 2023 (JPL)
Scientists have known that Europa's shell is probably free-floating, rotating at a different rate than the ocean below and the rocky interior. The new modeling ...
Inspiring mocktail menu served up by Space Juice winners
Mar 13, 2023 (ESA)
"What stood out is how all entrants cleverly linked their ingredients to the themes of ESA's Juice mission to come up with so many different drink recipes," com...
First the Moon, now Jupiter
Mar 08, 2023 (SPX)
JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) is the first European spacecraft to go to Jupiter. Its primary goal is to understand whether the oceans of these icy Jovian m...
Newly discovered form of salty ice could exist on surface of extraterrestrial moons
Feb 22, 2023 (SPX)
A team led by the University of Washington may have solved the puzzle with the discovery of a new type of solid crystal that forms when water and table salt com...
New aurorae detected on Jupiter's four largest moons
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
"These observations are tricky because in Jupiter's shadow the moons are nearly invisible. The light emitted by their faint aurorae is the only confirmation tha...
JUICE's final take-off before lift-off
Feb 10, 2023 (SPX)
These moons have long been of interest to scientists and researchers due to their potential to host microbial life. Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter and th...
A new ring system discovered in our Solar System
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
The ring system is around a dwarf planet, named Quaoar, which is approximately half the size of Pluto and orbits the Sun beyond Neptune. The discovery, publishe...
SwRI models explain canyons on Pluto moon
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
"A combination of geological interpretations and thermal-orbital evolution models implies that Charon had a subsurface liquid ocean that eventually froze," said...
NASA's Juno Team assessing camera after 48th flyby of Jupiter
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
However, on this new occasion the issue persisted for a longer period of time (23 hours compared to 36 minutes during the December close pass), leaving the firs...
Webb spies Chariklo ring system with high-precision technique
Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)
We asked members of the science team observing Chariklo to tell us more about this unique system, the occultation technique, and what they learned from their We...
Europe's JUICE spacecraft ready to explore Jupiter's icy moons
Jan 24, 2023 (AFP)
For now, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is in a white room of its manufacturer Airbus in the southwestern French city of Toulouse. But its days on this ...
From Europe to Jupiter via Kourou
Jan 24, 2023 (DLR)
Under their icy crust, the moons could likely harbour oceans in which life could possibly exist. The Institute of Planetary Research at the German Aerospace Cen...
Exotic water ice contributes to understanding of magnetic anomalies on Neptune and Uranus
Jan 23, 2023 (SPX)
In the superionic crystalline phase, water loses its molecular identity (H2O): negative oxygen ions (O2-) crystallize into an extensive lattice, and protons in ...
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