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If and when robotic spacecraft or human explorers reach the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, they could begin exploring it based on data collected by a team of Russian experts currently digging their way into Lake Vostok.
This particular lake is very special. Buried under 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of Antar... |
14 February 2012
05:44 GMT |
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As Russian investigators are getting ready to penetrate Antarctic ice sheets all the way to the submerged Lake Vostok, they are also pondering the implications that their achievement will have on space exploration. They say that the habitat may look just like the ocean on Europa.
This is one of the most interesting... |
7 February 2012
05:24 GMT |
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Officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California announce that the Juno spacecraft has just completed a new course-correction maneuver. This will place it on a more efficient trajectory towards Jupiter, its final destination. The maneuver began at 10:10 am PST (1810 GMT) on February 1,... |
3 February 2012
04:59 GMT |
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The Jovian moon Io is one of the most promising candidates for supporting life in the solar system. Other celestial bodies, such as Jupiter's Europa and the Saturnine moons Enceladus and Titan, are also good candidates, but only Io could potentially support extreme lifeforms.
One of the things that separate th... |
28 December 2011
10:55 GMT |
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The largest and heaviest planet in our solar system is apparently well on its way to destroying its own core, a complex set of analyses has revealed recently. The most interesting implication of the new work is that the largest gas giant extrasolar planets may not have a core at all. Analyzing what goes on on Jupiter... |
19 December 2011
08:06 GMT |
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According to a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the top journal Nature, it would appear that massive volumes of water are trapped under the surface of Europa, one of the most interesting moons around Jupiter.
The data were extracted from a series of observations that NASA spacecraft carried of the ... |
17 November 2011
02:47 GMT |
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This impressive montage of Jupiter and its moon Io first appeared on the cover of the Science magazine on its October 12, 2007, issue. It was made up of images collected by the NASA New Horizons space probe, which is currently on its way to Pluto. It will reach its destination in early 2015.
The spacecraft carried o... |
16 November 2011
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A group of investigators has recently demonstrated in a new scientific study that it is entirely possible extremophiles originating from Earth may endure on the Jovian moon Europa. Past studies have shown that meteorite impacts can take these microorganisms to other worlds relatively unharmed.
Researchers also de... |
3 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Since the Sun first formed, about 4.6 billion years ago, the planets in our solar system have been shifting their positions non-stop. At this time, the trend is less obvious, but in the earliest days gas giants such as Jupiter ran wild. Now, a study looks at how the planet influences the solar system.Jupiter is the l... |
25 August 2011
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A group of experts working in Atlanta, Georgia, are currently working on developing a comprehensive, highly-detailed model of the atmosphere surrounding the gas giant Jupiter. This study could reveal more details about how the planet – and indeed the solar system – formed. The model that scientists hope t... |
10 August 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Freshly launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), in Florida, the Juno spacecraft is carrying the first JEDI to Jupiter. The mission will arrive at the largest planet in our solar system in July 2016, when it is scheduled to begin a 1-year observations campaign. Juno carries a variety of instruments... |
6 August 2011
06:58 GMT |
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The newest mission NASA created for exploring the largest planet in our solar system took off successfully yesterday, August 5, at 12:25 pm EDT (1625 GMT). The Juno spacecraft is heading for Jupiter, where it is scheduled to arrive in mis-2016. The probe took off aboard an United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V deliver... |
6 August 2011
04:19 GMT |
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In recognition of his enormous contribution to understanding Jupiter and its moon, Galileo Galilei will be honored during the new mission NASA is sending to the planet. The Juno spacecraft will carry three figurines to deep space, of which one is modeled after the famous scientist. The probe will also carry a plaque... |
4 August 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Weather officials at the American space agency say that there is a 70 percent chance of good weather for the planned launch of the Juno spacecraft. The mission, which has been eight years in the making, is scheduled to blast off on Friday, August 5.The probe will take off aboard an Atlas V delivery system, from the C... |
3 August 2011
04:26 GMT |
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When the NASA Juno spacecraft launches this month, it will begin a 5-year trip to Jupiter that will finally enable experts to analyze this largely-unstudied planet. One of the science product the probe will return will by a high-definition (HD) view of the Jovian magnetosphere. Understanding the way a planet's m... |
1 August 2011
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Engineers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) moved the NASA Juno spacecraft to its designated takeoff site yesterday, July 27. The maneuver was then followed by the mating of the probe with its Atlas 5 delivery system, that will take it to Jupiter.At this point, Juno is scheduled to launch on Friday, Aug... |
28 July 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Investigators recently discovered that Ganymede, in orbit around Jupiter, is the only moon in our entire solar system to feature a magnetic field. Thus far, studies only identified such structures on planets such as Earth and some of the gas giants. One of the easiest way to check for the existence of magnetic fields... |
20 July 2011
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Engineers are continuing to get the NASA Juno spacecraft ready for launch later this year. Just a couple of days ago, they completed the integration process, which means that the probe is now safely tucked away inside its payload fairing. The device helps protect the vehicle during the harsh ascent to Earth's or... |
20 July 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Experts at the Astrotech processing facility, in Titusville, Florida, announce that the complete propulsion system of the next NASA mission to the gas giant Jupiter has been fully integrated, tested, and is now ready to fly. The Juno mission will launch later this year, and its main mission is to study the giant plan... |
8 July 2011
08:38 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that they are about a month away from the time when the first launch window for the Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft opens. When this happens, the team will have about 22 days to send the rocket carrying the orbiter in space.
Planets in the solar system are not always ... |
6 July 2011
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Back when the solar system was still in its infancy, and the Sun was only a shadow of what it was to become, one of our gas giant planets played an important role in determining the ultimate appearance of the system, and potentially Earth's chances of supporting life. That planet was Jupiter.For billions of year... |
7 June 2011
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A couple of days ago, the last of the three massive solar panels that will power up NASA's next Jupiter-bound spacecraft was folded into its final launch configuration, after having successfully completed a wide array of tests meant to assess its functionality.The tests were carried out by engineers at a Titusvi... |
28 May 2011
02:25 GMT |
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The crust covering the Jovian moon Io may also be keeping a vast ocean of magma buried just beneath the surface from spilling out. According to the conclusions of the latest study conducted on this object, it would appear that the underground layer of molten rock spreads all over the moon. This may provide an explana... |
13 May 2011
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On Thursday, May 5, the NASA Administrator visited the Titusville, Florida-based Astrotech payload processing facility, which currently holds the Juno spacecraft. The mission is being developed by NASA to visit Jupiter, and provide new data about the gas giant. Charles Bolden visited the installation with the express... |
6 May 2011
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A spacecraft that will launch to Jupiter later this year has arrived at a preparations facility in Florida. It was delivered to the Astrotech payload processing facility, in Titusville, by engineers at the Denver-based Lockheed Martin Space System, which is the main contractor NASA selected for the mission.
The pr... |
9 April 2011
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Astronomers consider the volcanic Jovian moon Io to be one of the prime candidates for the existence of life in the solar system, in places other than Earth. Experts believe that the environment on the small celestial body is similar to that of our planet, in its distant past. Io is widely considered to be the most v... |
4 April 2011
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The upcoming mission that NASA has planned for studying Jupiter is currently beginning to take shape in the labs of Denver, Colorado-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems (LMSS). The company is the main contractor the space agency selected to build the orbiter.At this point, the vehicle is undergoing environmental test... |
9 March 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Astronomers recently conducted a series of studies meant to provide additional insights into the nature of the Southern Equatorial Belt on Jupiter. The formation disappeared a year ago, and is currently making itself visible again. Planetary scientists are very interested in learning why the atmospheric structure is ... |
9 March 2011
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In spite of the fact that the Jupiter moon Europa is one of the most interesting places for science in the entire solar system, a flagship-class mission to investigate it in detail may no longer be on the table.
Officials at NASA hinted at the fact that the budget allotted for planetary probes may decline at the ... |
5 March 2011
04:47 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the NASA Hubble Space Telescope release a new image of the auroras around the gas giant Jupiter. These flares of ultraviolet light are in some aspects similar to ones that develop here on Earth, but experts underline that the two are different in nature. At first, experts believed that auroras o... |
12 February 2011
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A team of astronomers managed to capture an amazing series of pictures of the South Equatorial Belt feature on Jupiter on November 30, 2010, with a little help from one of the most interesting moons in orbit around the gas giant, Europa. The study was conducted because the trademark atmospheric feature Jupiter had di... |
10 February 2011
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The Europa Jupiter System Mission is a proposed collaboration of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), that will see a spacecraft, or several probes, being sent to analyze the gas giant and its moon and ring systems. Experts from the two agencies met recently to discuss their vision on the flight.At the meeting, ... |
5 February 2011
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An international team of investigators led by American researchers has recently determined that the space object which slammed into Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009 was in fact an asteroid, and not a comet, as previously stated. The group was also able to determine that the space rock was approximately the ... |
27 January 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who managed the NASA Cassini orbiter around Saturn, are proud to announce that today is the ten-year anniversary of the moment when the spacecraft passed by Jupiter, on its way to its final target. The encounter took place on December 30, 2000, as Cassini was headi... |
30 December 2010
04:26 GMT |
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Since Jupiter's moon Europa was first discovered, experts have proposed that it could contain life, given the large spreads of ice covering its surface. Now, a microbe discovered in the Canadian Arctic may finally confirm whether life on the Jovian moon is possible or not. Investigators believe that the new stud... |
14 December 2010
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Astronomers announce that 596Scheila, a space object that has been known for some time, and which was until now believed to be an asteroid, has just revealed that it actually has a tail and come. This, by all definitions, makes is a fully-fledged comet. Experts say that cases in which space rocks turn out to be in fa... |
13 December 2010
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In-depth analyses of 101 year's worth of comet data is beginning to indicate that indeed a large, dark, Jupiter-sized object may be roaming the outskirts of the solar system, destabilizing it, and throwing comets towards the Sun and the inner planets. The new data also indicates that around 20 percent of the com... |
30 November 2010
09:01 GMT |
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A group of astronomers says that the planet Jupiter is finally looking like itself again, after having lost one of its dark brown stripe of clouds, called the South Equatorial Belt (SEB).The atmospheric system is one of the two stripes of this nature the gas giant has, but it disappeared earlier this year under ... |
25 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) announce that they have just delivered the magnetometers that will go on the Juno spacecraft to the Lockheed Martin corporation, in Denver. Juno will be the next NASA mission to Jupiter, and is currently scheduled to launch in 2011. The mission will carry advance... |
28 October 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Astronomers say that they were recently able to confirm the existence of two Jupiter-class exoplanets in orbit around a pair of stars called a binary system. This was thought to be nearly impossible until now, due to the interactions that develop in such a cosmic structure. The stars in this particular binary pair ar... |
26 October 2010
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A team of astronomers has determined that a hot Jupiter-class exoplanet is featuring an impressively hot spot on its surface, but not where scientists expected to find based on the common laws of physics.Studies of the planer Upsilon Andromedae b have shown that the gas giant orbits its parent star at such close rang... |
20 October 2010
02:37 GMT |
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For many years, researchers have suspected that the Jovian moon Europa contains a hidden underground ocean, but now chemists believe that something else may be taking place on the planet as well. They explain that the deep regions of the moon, and perhaps even its surface, may be home to some fast chemical processes,... |
5 October 2010
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Planetary scientists are currently puzzled at the fact that a hot exoplanet that was recently discovered appears to be mission the chemical methane from its atmosphere.Researchers are at a loss in explaining why the gas giant, who is larger than Jupiter, fails to show traces of the hydrocarbon, which is extremely com... |
16 September 2010
10:45 GMT |
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A team of astronomers proposes that the main reason why experts cannot find hot Jupiter-class exoplanets around stars in clusters is the fact that these cosmic fireballs have already destroyed them.Very few of the numerous studies conducted on such parent stars have evidenced the existence of occultations, which is a... |
10 September 2010
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This year marked the first instance ever when amateur astronomers were able to use Earth-based telescopes to see a duo if fireballs lighting up the Jovian atmosphere. The amateurs observed the events even before larger observatories did. Now, a series of papers on the impacts is starting to emerge, published in vario... |
10 September 2010
02:14 GMT |
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After the Perseids in August, September comes with the autumn constellations, brought by the mythical winged horse Pegasus.The September constellations have few or no bright stars at all, not even Pegasus, which is one of the largest constellations in area.The star pattern that is most obvious to the naked eye is the... |
1 September 2010
09:00 GMT |
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An extrasolar planet about seven times the mass of Jupiter surprised astronomers recently, when it revealed that it featured a type of atmospheric composition that no one expected it to sport. This particular celestial body is very important to experts because it is one of the very few exoplanets that can be photogra... |
1 September 2010
03:02 GMT |
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A Japanese amateur astronomer recorded a video of a new flash on Jupiter, on Saturday morning Japan time (around 18:22 GMT or 2:22 pm ET Friday), less than three months after a meteor fall that had already impressed astronomers.In Kumamoto city, on the island of Kyushu, Masayuki Tashikawa pointed his video-equipped t... |
23 August 2010
03:19 GMT |
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft is less than year closer to finally reaching giant asteroid Vesta, as it enter its orbit in late July 2011.The first images of the asteroid will captivate the public as it will look like it is broadcast live, says Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ... |
20 August 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Jupiter's moon Europa is very interesting to astronomers, as it may very well hold a liquid ocean of water just below its surface. However, getting there is a challenge, and researchers are currently working on a way of making it possible. This is the goal of a new research initiative, which seeks to determine t... |
17 August 2010
02:43 GMT |
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