Jupiter is known for its massive storms, but trying to peer inside them requires teamwork by the Juno spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Gemini North telescope in Hawaii.
Jupiter is iconic, with its swirls of water and ammonia vapor that characterize its outer surface and its distinctive Giant Red Spot, a gigantic storm raging across its face. But its mysteries abound ...
The ongoing turmoil inside Jupiter’s missing — and slowly re-emerging — South Equatorial Belt can now be seen in unprecedented detail thanks to the Keck II telescope’s adaptive optics system and the ...
Even after Europe's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) concludes its mission more than ten years from now, we are unlikely to know for sure whether life might be thriving in the vicinity of the solar ...
When NASA’s Juno spacecraft pointed a sensitive instrument toward the belly of the largest planet in the Solar System, it detected something peculiar: A jet hidden deep below Jupiter’s atmosphere. As ...
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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter has a diameter of almost 87,000 miles. (Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight ...