Jupiter’s Fuzzy Core
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, gives us a unique opportunity to learn about planetary formation and structure. One of the leading hypotheses for the formation of Jupiter, […]
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, gives us a unique opportunity to learn about planetary formation and structure. One of the leading hypotheses for the formation of Jupiter, […]
The Great Red Spot (GRS) is a persistent anticyclonic storm in the atmosphere of Jupiter. It is the largest atmospheric vortex in the solar system, spanning 16,000 kilometers longitudinally. While […]
El 5 de octubre, la Agencia Espacial de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (UAE por sus siglas en ingles) anunció un plan para enviar una sonda a aterrizar en un asteroide […]
Jupiter’s atmosphere consists predominantly of molecular hydrogen and helium with small fractions of other compounds such as water. Powerful storms are believed to occur on Jupiter as a result of […]
Recently announced observations have discovered 12 new moons orbiting the biggest planet in our solar system. These moons range in size from 1 km (0.6 miles) to 3 km (1.9 […]
Europa Clipper, the upcoming NASA flagship class mission, is expected to be launched in the early 2020s. The primary goal of the mission is to study Europa as the spacecraft orbits […]
Jupiter’s moon, Io, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Studying the thermal emission from Io’s erupting volcanos can provide constraints on the composition of Io’s lavas, […]
The vast majority of mass in the solar system rotates in a single direction — only a few objects, mostly asteroids or comets, rotate the opposite direction. Recent study of […]
The Juno spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter since July 5, 2016, has provided a wealth of data that are warping and overturning our understanding of its structure. Among the most mind-bending discoveries are the clusters […]
The Planetary Data System announces the first release of data from the JUNO mission. The release includes EDR and RDR level data acquired between 2016-07-06 and 2016-10-20, which covers Juno […]
LUNAR AND PLANETARY INFORMATION BULLETIN ISSUE #145 June 2016 Now available on the LPI’s website at www.lpi.usra.edu/lpib Download eBook version http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/lpib/e-book/ Features in this issue include: NASA’s Juno Mission: […]
They’re united by a lofty goal — to investigate whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could harbor primitive life under its icy shell. Last week, a team of scientists and engineers for […]
The ruddy color of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is likely a product of simple chemicals being broken apart by sunlight in the planet’s upper atmosphere, according to a new analysis […]
Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter’s moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year. This led astronomers to speculate that such “outbursts,” which can send material […]
AGU Fall Meeting December 15-19, 2014 San Francisco, CA Abstract submission deadline: August 6, 2014 We solicit new research findings about the ionospheres, atmospheres and deep interiors of Jupiter, Saturn, […]
We solicit new research findings about the ionospheres, atmospheres and deep interiors of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. A special focus of our session is on the processes that reflect […]
Jupiter’s trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling storm feature larger than Earth — is shrinking. This downsizing, which is changing the shape of the spot from an oval into […]
The largest moon in our solar system, a companion to Jupiter named Ganymede, might have ice and oceans stacked up in several layers like a club sandwich, according to new […]
NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to science and engineering communities for ideas for a mission to Europa that could address fundamental questions of the enigmatic moon and […]
More than 400 years after its discovery by astronomer Galileo Galilei, the largest moon in the solar system – Jupiter’s moon Ganymede – has finally claimed a spot on the […]