Sitting more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not…
Browsing: Juno Spacecraft
The Juno spacecraft is a NASA space probe designed to study Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. Launched on August 5, 2011, Juno’s mission focuses on understanding Jupiter’s composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. By closely examining these aspects, scientists hope to gain insights into the planet’s formation, structure, atmosphere, and more. Juno orbits Jupiter in highly elliptical orbits, allowing it to come close to the planet’s cloud tops for detailed observations while also avoiding the most intense regions of its radiation belts. The spacecraft is equipped with a suite of scientific instruments capable of penetrating Jupiter’s dense cloud cover to reveal hidden information about its interior and to provide unprecedented views of its auroras. Juno’s findings are expected to enhance our understanding not only of Jupiter but also of the broader processes governing the solar system’s formation and evolution.
Weizmann Institute scientists reveal how gigantic cyclones remain stable at both of Jupiter’s poles. Until…
The spacecraft used its infrared instrument during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create…
On August 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno spacecraft launched on a five-year interplanetary journey that took…
An international research team led by YAO Zhonghua from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics…
The Juno Waves instrument “listened” to the radio emissions from Jupiter’s immense magnetic field to…
The Juno probe flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in…
A puzzler about the gas giant’s intense northern and southern lights has been deciphered. Planetary…
Trapped ions discovered at midlatitudes can have energies exceeding 100 megaelectron volts per nucleon. Their…
The first of the gas-giant orbiter’s back-to-back flybys will provide a close encounter with the…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the intriguing evolution of a feature in the giant planet’s atmosphere…
This image from NASA’s Juno mission captures the northern hemisphere of Jupiter around the region…
UVS images faint auroral rings that likely originate at edge of gas giant’s magnetosphere. The…
A new study tracks the life cycle of the spectacular ultraviolet storms in the big…
The gas-giant orbiter is illuminating the provenance of Jovian polar light shows. New results from…
Data from the NASA spacecraft’s journey to Jupiter suggests that Mars may be shedding dust…
From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a…
The spacecraft, which has been gathering data on the gas giant since July 2016, will…