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Mid-infrared images from the Subaru telescope extend Juno spacecraft discoveries
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
High-resolution thermal imaging of Jupiter by the COoled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea is providing ...
Earth-based Views of Jupiter to Enhance Juno Flyby
Jul 03, 2017 (JPL)
Throughout the Juno mission, numerous observations of Jupiter by Earth-based telescopes have been acquired in coordination with the mission, to help Juno invest...
NASA's Juno Spacecraft to Fly Over Jupiter's Great Red Spot July 10
Jul 03, 2017 (JPL)
"Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter," said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Resear...
Topsy-Turvy Motion Creates Light-Switch Effect at Uranus
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
This is much different from Earth's magnetosphere, which typically only switches between open and closed in response to changes in the solar wind. Earth's magne...
The curious case of the warped Kuiper Belt
Jun 23, 2017 (SPX)
In the paper, Kat Volk and Renu Malhotra of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, or LPL, present compelling evidence of a yet-to-be- disc...
NASA Completes Study of Future 'Ice Giant' Mission Concepts
Jun 23, 2017 (JPL)
The results of this and future studies will be used as the Decadal Survey deliberates on NASA's planetary science priorities from 2022-2032. The study identifie...
King of the Gods: Jupiter Dated to Be Oldest Planet in the Solar System
Jun 20, 2017 (Sputnik)
Dating a celestial object isn't too difficult, so long as you have a sample of it. The Earth is about 4.543 billion years old, for instance. Jupiter, meanwhile ...
New Horizons Team Digs into New Data on Next Flyby Target
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
Overnight on June 2-3, about two-dozen members of the New Horizons team and other observers in Argentina and South Africa were hoping to capture the fleeting st...
First Juno Science Results Supported by University's Jupiter 'Forecast'
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
The astronomers from the University's Department of Physics and Astronomy, led by Professor Stan Cowley, the UK science lead for the Juno mission, have led thre...
Jupiters complex transient auroras
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
At Earth, auroras are clearly driven by the solar wind that streams past the planet. But Jupiter's gigantic auroras - magnitudes more powerful than those on Ear...
A whole new Jupiter with first science results from Juno
May 26, 2017 (JPL)
"We are excited to share these early discoveries, which help us better understand what makes Jupiter so fascinating," said Diane Brown, Juno program executive a...
First results from Juno show cyclones and massive magnetism
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
The Juno mission, which launched in 2011 and began its first orbit last year, allows scientists to view Jupiter in new ways because of its highly elliptical orb...
New Horizons Deploys Global Team for Rare Look at Next Flyby Target
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
But over the next six weeks, the New Horizons mission team gets an "MU69" preview of sorts - and a chance to gather some critical encounter-planning information...
NASA's Juno probe forces 'rethink' on Jupiter
May 25, 2017 (AFP)
A NASA statement described the planet as "a complex, gigantic, turbulent world" that is far different than scientists previously thought. Two papers in the jour...
Hubble spots moon around third largest dwarf planet
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
With this discovery, most of the known dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt larger than 600 miles across have companions. These bodies provide insight into how moon...
NASA asks science community for Europa Lander Instruments ideas
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
NASA Wednesday informed the science community to prepare for a planned competition to select science instruments for a potential Europa lander. While a Europa l...
Waves of lava seen in Io's largest volcanic crater
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The infrared data showed that the surface temperature of Io's massive molten lake steadily increased from one end to the other, suggesting that the lava had ove...
Not So Great Anymore: Jupiter's Red Spot Shrinks to Smallest Size Ever
May 08, 2017 (Sputnik)
But the GRS is shrinking, and has been doing so for a while - and nobody is totally sure why. The Hubble Space Telescope noticed that the GRS was at its smalles...
The PI's Perspective: No Sleeping Back on Earth!
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
The hibernation period we're in will last through mid-September. Every Monday between now and then, the spacecraft will check in with a health report, in which ...
ALMA investigates 'DeeDee,' a distant, dim member of our solar system
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
At about three times the current distance of Pluto from the Sun, DeeDee is the second most distant known trans-Neptunian object (TNO) with a confirmed orbit, su...
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