Using high-precision radio-occultation measurements from NASA’s Juno mission and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, planetary scientists derived Jupiter’s shape with an order-of-magnitude ...
Between 7 satellite fly-bys and 2 dedicated missions, you'd think our knowledge about Jupiter would be pretty solid, but we're still learning more.
“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...
For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revised that knowledge using new data and ...
The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds Jupiter’s diameter slightly smaller than old estimates, providing precise data on the gas giant’s shape and interior structure.
An international team of researchers using data from NASA’s Juno mission has redefined the physical dimensions of the gas ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has just gotten a bit smaller, at least according to the latest data. New ...
Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...