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Juice: why's it taking sooo long
Sep 20, 2023 (ESA)
The answer depends on a variety of factors that flight dynamics experts at ESA's Mission Control know well, from the amount fuel used to the power of the rocket...
Possible existence of Earth-like planet predicted in Outskirts of Solar System
Sep 11, 2023 (SPX)
Most people are familiar with the eight known planets of the solar system. However, it is almost certain that billions of years ago from now, the solar system f...
SwRI will lead Hubble, Webb observations of Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon
Aug 30, 2023 (SPX)
"The timing of this project is critical. Over the next year, Juno will buzz past Io several times, offering rare opportunities to combine in situ and remote obs...
In the service of planetary science, astrophysics and heliophysics
Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)
I am even more excited about an intense period of diverse science observations that is stretching across August and September. We'll stop the spacecraft from sp...
Mysterious Neptune dark spot detected from Earth for the first time
Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)
Large spots are common features in the atmospheres of giant planets, the most famous being Jupiter's Great Red Spot. On Neptune, a dark spot was first discovere...
The Road to Jupiter: Two decades of trajectory optimization
Aug 21, 2023 (SPX)
To bridge this gap, a joint study by scholars from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics alongside their peers at Rutgers, The State University of ...
Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle
Aug 19, 2023 (SPX)
In 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft provided the first close-up images of linear, bright clouds, reminiscent of cirrus clouds on Earth, seen high in Neptune's ...
NASA's Europa probe gets a hotline to Earth
Aug 16, 2023 (JPL)
Stretching 10 feet (3 meters) across the spacecraft's body, the high-gain antenna is the largest and most prominent of a suite of antennas on Europa Clipper. Th...
Hundred-year storms? That's how long they last on Saturn.
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
A new study now shows that Saturn - though much blander and less colorful than Jupiter - also has long-lasting megastorms with impacts deep in the atmosphere th...
All Eyes on the Ice Giants
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
In September - in tandem with the Hubble Space Telescope - New Horizons will turn its color camera toward Uranus and Neptune. From New Horizons' position in the...
Looking for Light with New Horizons
Aug 09, 2023 (SPX)
We are now nearly twice as far away from the Sun as Pluto. The Sun has dwindled to a brilliant star, its illumination terribly diminished in power, compared to ...
James Webb Space Telescope sees Jupiter moons in a new light
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
In two separate publications, astronomers who are part of JWST's Early Release Science program report the first detection of hydrogen peroxide on Ganymede and s...
NASA's Juno Is Getting Ever Closer to Jupiter's Moon Io
Jul 27, 2023 (SPX)
When NASA's Juno mission flies by Jupiter's fiery moon Io on Sunday, July 30, the spacecraft will be making its closest approach yet, coming within 13,700 miles...
SwRI team identifies giant swirling waves at the edge of Jupiter's magnetosphere
Jul 18, 2023 (SPX)
Jake Montgomery, a doctoral student in the joint space physics program between UTSA and SwRI, noted that these phenomena occur when a large difference in veloci...
First ultraviolet data collected by ESA's JUICE mission
Jul 06, 2023 (SPX)
UVS is one of 10 science instruments and 11 investigations for the JUICE spacecraft. The mission has overarching goals of investigating potentially habitable wo...
Unveiling Jupiter's upper atmosphere
Jun 22, 2023 (SPX)
Launched in December 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) uses infrared radiation to look deep into space, meaning it can observe the first stars and ...
Juno captures lightning bolts above Jupiter's north pole
Jun 18, 2023 (SPX)
Much like Earth's lightning bolts that stem from water clouds, most frequently near the equator, the tempestuous weather of Jupiter also spawns lightning. Howev...
ASU study: Jupiter's moon Europa may have had a slow evolution
Jun 18, 2023 (SPX)
Amid the Jovian system, Europa is of particular interest to scientists because of the strong evidence for nutrients, water and energy to potentially provide a h...
Colorful Kuiper Belt puzzle solved by UH researchers
Jun 02, 2023 (SPX)
A new study led by researchers in University of Hawai?i at Manoa's Department of Chemistry has replicated the environment in the Kuiper Belt to discover what is...
Juice deployments complete: final form for Jupiter
May 26, 2023 (ESA)
"It's been an exhausting but very exciting six weeks," says Angela Dietz, deputy spacecraft operations manager for the mission. "We have faced and overcome vari...
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