NASA's Jupiter-circling spacecraft stuck making long laps
NASA's Jupiter-circling spacecraft is stuck making long laps around the gas giant because of sticky valves.
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Juno to remain in current orbit at Jupiter
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission. This will allow Juno to accomplish its science goals, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2017
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NASA flying observatory makes observations of Jupiter previously only possible from space
For the first time since the twin Voyager spacecraft missions in 1979, scientists have produced far-infrared maps of Jupiter using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. These maps were created from ...
Space Exploration
Jan 5, 2017
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Juno spacecraft in safe mode for latest Jupiter flyby
NASA's Juno spacecraft entered safe mode Tuesday, Oct. 18 at about 10:47 p.m. PDT (Oct. 19 at 1:47 a.m. EDT). Early indications are a software performance monitor induced a reboot of the spacecraft's onboard computer. The ...
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Oct 19, 2016
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Jupiter's north pole unlike anything encountered in solar system
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on. The images show storm systems and weather activity ...
Space Exploration
Sep 2, 2016
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New light on the complex nature of 'hot Jupiter' atmospheres
Fascinating new light could be shed on the complex atmospheres of planets which orbit stars outside our own solar system, thanks to pioneering new research.
Astronomy
Sep 2, 2016
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Discovery one-ups tatooine, finds twin stars hosting three giant exoplanets
A team of Carnegie scientists has discovered three giant planets in a binary star system composed of stellar ''twins'' that are also effectively siblings of our Sun. One star hosts two planets and the other hosts the third. ...
Astronomy
Aug 31, 2016
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NASA's Juno successfully completes Jupiter flyby
NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when Juno passed about 2,600 miles ...
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2016
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The proliferation of Jupiter-like worlds
Our galaxy is home to a bewildering variety of Jupiter-like worlds: hot ones, cold ones, giant versions of our own giant, pint-sized pretenders only half as big around.
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2016
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NASA's Juno to soar closest to Jupiter this Saturday
This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT, (8:51 a.m. EDT, 12:51 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time during its prime mission. At the moment of closest approach, Juno will ...
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Aug 26, 2016
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