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NASA’s Juno Mission Scientists Develop First Complete 3D Radiation Map of Jupiter System

August 21, 2024 NASA information center 0

Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have developed the first complete 3D radiation map of the Jupiter system. Along with characterizing the intensity of the high-energy particles near the orbit of the icy moon Europa, the map shows how the radiation environment is sculpted by the smaller moons orbiting near Jupiter’s rings. […]

NASA’s Juno Mission Discovers Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate in Cylindrical Layers

November 11, 2023 NASA information center 0

Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy. […]

PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s JunoCam Instrument Captures Vortices Near Jupiter’s North Pole

July 29, 2022 NASA information center 0

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. […]

NASA’s Juno Mission Discovers Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate in Cylindrical Layers

PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s JunoCam Instrument Captures Vortices Near Jupiter’s North Pole

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