05 September 2016
Surprises for Jupiter as Juno sends back its first images
... imagined before," said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "It's... giant’s southern aurora can hardly be seen, therefore Juno's unique polar orbit gives scientists the first opportunity to...
08 September 2017
The solar systems most powerful auroras are still a mystery
... solar system. Recent data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Juno spacecraft show that powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, accelerate electrons toward the...
03 September 2018
Water discovered in Jupiter's Great Red Spot suggests plenty more down below
...100 times the atmospheric pressure at Earth's surface. If Juno returns similar findings, it will substantiate the results from... Saturn, Uranus or Neptune, where we don't have a Juno," she said Chemically speaking Jupiter is the closest relative to ...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... of data from ESA’s XMM-Newton telescope and NASA’s Juno spacecraft, a team of researchers have found that ions ‘...matching computer simulations with observational data taken by XMM-Newton and Juno, a team led by Zhonghua Yao, at the Chinese Academy ...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
... discrepancy was likely related to higher concentrations of atomic oxygen (O2). As part of a large observing program to support NASA's Juno mission in 2018, Lorenz Roth of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden led the team that...
11 May 2020
Spacecraft and telescopes join forces to probe deep into Jupiter's atmosphere
... planet that are key to interpreting Juno's close-up observations. "Juno's microwave radiometer probes deep into the...that we've managed to collect this huge data set that supports the Juno mission. There are so many applications of the data set that...
