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July 06, 2016

What is the goal of Juno's mission to Jupiter?
Miami (AFP) July 5, 2016
NASA's Juno spacecraft on Tuesday began circling Jupiter on a 20-month mission to learn more about the origin of the solar system's most massive planet. The arrival was a triumph for the $1.1 billion project to get closer to Jupiter, a mysterious "planet on steroids" where everything is extreme, the atmosphere is poisonous and the radiation is 1,000 times the lethal limit for a human, according to principal investigator Scott Bolton. What are the great mysteries about Jupiter? Jupiter, the l ... read more

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Digitalization of analog data reveals past space weather patterns

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