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Scientists to Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains up to 250 miles high. However, concentrations of volcanic activity are significantly displaced from where they are expected to be based on models that predict how the moon’s interior is heated, according to NASA […]
Video: Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
March 13, 2012
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet’s jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth’s atmosphere and influences the weather. http://youtu.be/YHAPD4ACf7U
Venus and Jupiter: how to spot them
March 13, 2012
Read also: EARTHLINGS DAZZLED BY VENUS-JUPITER CLOSE ENCOUNTER The two planets will appear side-by-side in western skies for the next two evenings – offering a dazzling spectacle. So where and how can you best see them? After the moon, they are the two brightest objects in the night sky, and for the next few evenings they […]
Incredible high-resolution video of Jupiter
November 18, 2011
Jupiter map realised in 2011, between October 10th and October 15th at the Pic du Midi Observatory Jupiter observed with the 1 meter Telescope at the Pic du Midi observatory, and a Basler Scout Camera. Crédit : S2P / IMCCE / OPM / JL Dauvergne / Elie Rousset / Eric Meza / Philippe Tosi / […]
Nasa ‘discovers’ liquid water on Jupiter moon
November 17, 2011
Nasa says it has found evidence of a vast salt water lake just under the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa – a potential location for alien life http://youtu.be/wt58KiJW2kk Lake of slush hidden under floating ice cap on Jupiter’s moon Europa ‘could harbour life’ By ROB WAUGH Slushy lake may be hidden by a ‘lid’ […]
Jupiter’s Moment of Inertia: A Possible Determination by JUNO
September 10, 2011
The moment of inertia of a giant planet reveals important information about the planet’s internal density structure and this information is not identical to that contained in the gravitational moments. The forthcoming Juno mission to Jupiter might determine Jupiter’s normalized moment of inertia NMoI=C/MR^2 by measuring Jupiter’s pole precession and the Lense-Thirring acceleration of the […]
Juno probe heads for Jupiter from Cape Canaveral
August 6, 2011
The Atlas 5 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after a brief delay caused by a helium leak A $1.1bn (£0.7bn) unmanned Nasa space mission has launched from Florida on a journey to the planet Jupiter. The Juno spacecraft will cruise beyond Mars to put itself in orbit around the gas giant in […]
How Jupiter robbed Mars of mass and built the asteroid belt as the planets formed our solar system billions of years ago
June 7, 2011
Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the solar system formed about the same time, they might be expected to be more similar – by rights, Mars should be as big as Earth and Venus But a paper published […]
April 5, 2013
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