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11.17.22
NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Two Jovian Moons
On Nov. 29, 2021, NASA’s Juno mission completed its 38th close flyby of Jupiter. As the spacecraft sped low over the giant planet’s cloud tops, its JunoCam instrument captured this look at two of Jupiter’s largest moons.
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10.20.22
Audio from NASA’s Juno Mission: Europa Flyby
On September 29, 2022, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, at a distance of approximately 218 miles (350 kilometers). With a relative velocity of about 14.7 miles per second (23.6 kilometers per second), the Juno spacecraft only had a few minutes to collect data and images during its close flyby of Europa.
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10.07.22
Citizen Scientists Enhance New Europa Images From NASA’s Juno
Science enthusiasts have processed the new JunoCam images of Jupiter’s icy moon, with results that are out of this world.
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10.05.22
NASA’s Juno Gets Highest-Resolution Close-Up of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
The highest-resolution photo NASA’s Juno mission has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter’s moon Europa reveals a detailed view of a puzzling region of the moon’s heavily fractured icy crust.
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09.29.22
NASA’s Juno Shares First Image From Flyby of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Observations from the spacecraft’s pass of the moon provided the first close-up in over two decades of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science.
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09.22.22
NASA’s Juno Will Perform Close Flyby of Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa
As the spacecraft makes a close approach of the moon, it is expected to provide valuable science – and remarkable imagery – for NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission.
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08.31.22
NASA’s Juno Mission Reveals Jupiter’s Complex Colors
NASA’s Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and structure of Jupiter’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby of the giant planet on July 5, 2022.
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07.26.22
NASA’s Juno Mission Spies Vortices Near Jupiter’s North Pole
As NASA’s Juno mission completed its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 5, 2022, its JunoCam instrument captured this striking view of vortices — hurricane-like spiral wind patterns — near the planet’s north pole.
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06.09.22
Jupiter turns out to be inhomogeneous; metallicity gives clues about origin
An international team of astronomers, led by Yamila Miguel (SRON/Leiden Observatory), has found that Jupiter’s gaseous envelope doesn’t have a homogeneous distribution.
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05.28.22
Juno Skims the Cloud Tops of Jupiter
On April 9, 2022, as NASA’s Juno mission completed its 41st close flyby of Jupiter, its JunoCam instrument captured what it would look like to ride along with the spacecraft. Citizen scientist Andrea Luck created this animated sequence using raw JunoCam image data.