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Juice trajectory reset with historic Lunar-Earth flyby
Aug 21, 2024 (SPX)
The spacecraft made its closest approach to the Moon at 23:15 CEST (21:15 UTC) on August 19, followed by a near-Earth flyby just over a day later at 23:56 CEST ...
Juice captures striking image of Moon during flyby
Aug 21, 2024 (SPX)
This image was taken by Juice's monitoring camera 1 (JMC1) at 23:25 CEST on 19 August 2024, shortly after the spacecraft made its closest pass by the Moon. This...
Ariel's Carbon Dioxide Indicates Potential Subsurface Ocean on Uranus' Moon
Jul 29, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers propose that the carbon dioxide on Ariel's surface might originate from interactions between the moon's surface and charged particles in Uranus' mag...
Spacecraft to swing by Earth, Moon on path to Jupiter
Jul 27, 2024 (AFP)
The European Space Agency's Juice probe blasted off in April 2023 on a mission to discover whether Jupiter's icy moons Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa are capabl...
A new insight into Jupiter's shrinking Great Red Spot
Jul 25, 2024 (SPX)
Situated in Jupiter's southern hemisphere, the Great Red Spot is a massive, red-orange oval of high pressure over 10,000 miles wide. This anticyclone rotates co...
Queen's University Belfast Researchers Investigate Mysterious Brightening of Chiron
Jul 23, 2024 (SPX)
Discovered in 1977 and initially classified as an asteroid, Chiron was the first recognized member of the Centaurs, a new class of Solar System objects. The Cen...
NASA's Juno Mission Captures Dynamic Cloud Patterns on Jupiter
Jul 21, 2024 (SPX)
Citizen scientist Gary Eason created this remarkable image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument, employing digital processing techniques to enhance its co...
NASA Evaluates Electrical Components for Europa Clipper Mission
Jul 12, 2024 (SPX)
"Engineers with NASA's Europa Clipper mission continue to conduct extensive testing of transistors that help control the flow of electricity on the spacecraft."...
Subaru Telescope Discovers New Objects Beyond the Kuiper Belt
Jul 09, 2024 (SPX)
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a region filled with asteroids and small celestial bodies. This zone, extending to the Oort Cloud, constitutes the outer So...
NASA's Juno Observes Lava Lakes on Jupiter's Moon Io
Jun 27, 2024 (SPX)
Io has fascinated astronomers since Galileo Galilei discovered it in 1610. In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft captured a volcanic eruption on the moon. Subseq...
Understanding Cyclones on Jupiter Through Oceanography
Jun 07, 2024 (SPX)
Siegelman identified the connection between Earth and Jupiter in 2018 when she noticed similarities between images of Jupiter"s cyclones and the ocean turbulenc...
Unusual Ion May Influence Uranus and Neptune's Magnetic Fields
Jun 04, 2024 (SPX)
The magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune are not as well understood as those of Jupiter, Saturn, or Earth. Earth's magnetic field is generated by the circulati...
NASA's Europa Clipper Arrives in Florida for Launch Preparation
Jun 01, 2024 (SPX)
The spacecraft, which will collect data to help scientists determine if Jupiter's icy moon Europa could support life, arrived in a United States Air Force C-17 ...
New Earth-Based Telescope Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Match Spacecraft Quality
May 31, 2024 (SPX)
The images, to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, show surface features as small as 50 miles across, comparable to spacecraft imagery. The SHARK-VIS ...
Probing for Rocks in an Ice Giant's Core
May 23, 2024 (SPX)
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft whizzed past Uranus in January 1986, it revealed the planet's dark, delicate rings and its pale cyan atmosphere. Precisely what li...
Peering into Pluto's hidden ocean
May 23, 2024 (SPX)
In a paper published in the journal Icarus, Nguyen used mathematical models and images from the New Horizons spacecraft that passed by Pluto in 2015 to take a c...
New Horizons expand research with unique observations
May 21, 2024 (SPX)
Launched in 2006, New Horizons aimed to understand the development of Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and the solar system. Its historic flybys of Pluto in 2015 and the...
NASA's Juno captures detailed images of Europa's surface
May 16, 2024 (SPX)
The findings were published in the Planetary Science Journal and JGR Planets. On September 29, 2022, Juno flew within 220 miles of Europa's surface, capturing t...
UAF scientist clarifies Jupiter's magnetospheric dynamics with new data
May 07, 2024 (SPX)
"By exploring a larger space such as Jupiter, we can better understand the fundamental physics governing Earth's magnetosphere and thereby improve our space wea...
Webb telescope details weather patterns on distant exoplanet
May 01, 2024 (SPX)
A collaborative international research team utilized the James Webb Space Telescope's capabilities to gather precise brightness measurements and apply advanced ...
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