When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images The first ever 3D radiation map of ...
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Jupiter is not the size and shape we've long thought it was
The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just ...
Hubble’s Planetary Portrait Captures New Changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter the first in a series of annual portraits ...
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Jupiter smaller? Textbooks will need updating
The planet Jupiter, a gas giant and the king of our Solar System, has just been measured as slightly smaller than what is ...
The first global map of the largest moon in the solar system — Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons — shows a sharp contrast between older cratered areas and newer, lighter terrain. The map was published ...
Using cameras designed for navigation, scientists count ‘fireflies’ to determine the amount of radiation the spacecraft receives during each orbit of Jupiter. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have ...
According to this early data, Jupiter’s equatorial radius was around 44,423 miles (71,492 kilometers), and its polar radius ...
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Giant falls short: Juno finds Jupiter thinner at equator than previously thought
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...
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