Jupiter System
Jupiter System: Get the updated news on Origins of Jupiter, Juno Mission, Explosions of Jupiter’s aurora, Triple-Moon Conjunction, Jupiter Moon’s surface, Global Map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s Red Spot and much more….
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Mar 25, 2015bright explosions of Jupiter's aurora likely also get kicked off by the planet-moon interaction, not by solar activity. -
Mar 16, 2015The Hubble Space Telescope picks up clues from Ganymede's thin atmosphere. -
Mar 13, 2015NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. -
Feb 6, 2015NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter's largest moons racing across the banded face of the gas-giant planet: Europa, Callisto, and Io. -
Jan 26, 2015A swarm of tiny probes each with a different sensor could be fired into the clouds of Jupiter and grab data as they fall before burning up in the gas giant planet's atmosphere. -
Dec 1, 2014Getting a handle on what rocky worlds in our solar system would look like from afar will give us a basis for comparison as we seek out distant, habitable exoplanets. -
Aug 6, 2014Over two weeks in August 2013, Io exploded as a potential window into our past and many planets’ presents. -
Aug 5, 2014Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter’s moon Io, a satellite the size of Earth’s moon, within a two-week period last August. -
Jul 17, 2014Processes that shaped the ridges and troughs on the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Ganymede are likely similar to tectonic processes seen on Earth. -
May 7, 2014A new NASA-funded study has shown that Jupiter's moon Ganymede might have layers of ice and oceans sandwiched together beneath its surface.
