Jupiter

An artist's impression shows the internal structure of Jupiter's moon Io. Data from NASA's Juno spacecraft indicate that Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean, and is consistent with a mostly solid mantle (shown in green), with significant molten material (yellow and orange), above a liquid core (red/black). Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL/SwRI, edited

Juno's amazing discovery: Io's face is not what we expected

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Juno spacecraft data suggests Io's controversial magma ocean may not exist
The Europa Clipper spacecraft is using Mars' gravity to accelerate its way to Jupiter's mysterious moon. Credit: NASA

Europa Clipper uses Mars' gravity to accelerate its way to Jupiter's mysterious moon

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NASA's Europa Clipper probe has performed a gravity maneuver around Mars on its way to Jupiter's moon Europa, to investigate whether it might be home to extraterrestrial life.
SwRI is studying how Saturn's largest moon maintains its dense atmosphere. Scientists think Titan's core is covered in layers of ice and a subsurface liquid ocean. New experiments show that nitrogen and methane gases produced by organic matter in the core seep to the surface, regularly renewing the atmosphere. Credit: Southwest Research Institute

Scientists decipher Titan's dense atmosphere – new discoveries about the sources of nitrogen and methane

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New research suggests that nitrogen and methane seep from Titan's rocky core to the surface, helping to maintain its dense atmosphere. The findings could shed light on the planet's internal chemistry.
Imaging of Jupiter as seen in ultraviolet light. In addition to the Great Red Spot, visible in blue in this image, another oval structure can be seen in the brown haze at Jupiter's south pole. The oval structure, a region of fog concentration, may have been caused by mixing generated in higher vorticity in Jupiter's ionosphere. These dark oval structures also appear in the North Pole, although less frequently. Credit: Troy Tsubota and Michael Wong, University of California - Berkeley.

Magnetic eddies reveal the secrets of Jupiter's poles

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New discoveries reveal the fascinating dynamics of Jupiter's magnetic field and atmosphere, with the help of ultraviolet observations from the Hubble telescope
This artist's concept shows NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter and passes over the icy moon Europa. The mission, scheduled to reach Jupiter in April 2030, will be the first to conduct an in-depth study of Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's Europa Clipper launches: A bold search for life on Jupiter's icy moon

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The largest spacecraft ever built for an interplanetary mission has begun its long journey to explore Europa, with the goal of uncovering the secrets of the ocean beneath the ice and possibly finding evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Storm clouds over the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Archive photo). Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Due to Hurricane Milton, the launch of the Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter, which was planned for yesterday, 10/10/2024, was postponed

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Severe weather conditions in Florida are forcing NASA and SpaceX to delay the launch of the Europa Clipper mission, which was designed to explore Jupiter's icy moon.
This photo shows technicians completing operations before refueling the Europa Clipper spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on September 11, 2024. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Ready for justice: NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will be fueled for launch

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The Europa Clipper spacecraft was recently refueled, an important step in preparation for its mission to Jupiter's moon Europa
This artist rendering shows NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Europa Clipper spacecraft: Large solar wings power NASA's largest planetary spacecraft ever

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This composite image shows suspicious jets of water vapor erupting at the 7 o'clock position outside the boundary of Jupiter's moon Europa. The streams, imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Imaging Spectrometer camera, were seen in silhouette as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. The Hubble data were collected on January 26, 2014. The image of Europa superimposed on the Hubble data consists of data from the Galileo Voyager missions Credit: NASA/ESA/W. Sparks (STScI)/USGS Astrogeology Science Center

NASA researchers propose looking for signatures of life near the surface of Enceladus and Europa

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NASA scientists conducted an experiment simulating the conditions on the icy moons Europa of Jupiter and Enceladus of Shabati and came to the conclusion that if there is life on them you don't need to dig deep to find at least their remains
This illustration shows charged particles from Jupiter hitting the face of Europa, separating icy water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen molecules. The scientists believe that some of these newly formed oxygen gases can move into the moon's subsurface ocean, as the circled figure shows. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/PU

Will the moon Europa return? The Juno spacecraft discovered oxygen on Jupiter's moon

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NASA's Juno spacecraft directly measured charged molecules of oxygen and hydrogen from the atmosphere of Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons. According to new research by scientists at SwRI and Princeton, these observations provided
An image of Jupiter taken by Juno in 2019, showing storm zones in the northern hemisphere. Credit: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Extrasolar Planet Hunter Targets Jupiter: A New Twist in the Space Exploration Plot

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For the first time, NASA activated a tool designed to discover planets many light years away on an object in the solar system, in a study of the winds of Jupiter
Jupiter (Webb NIRCam image): This image of Jupiter from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) shows spectacular detail of the planet, which is impressive in infrared light. In this image, brightness indicates a high altitude . The many white "dots" and "marks" are likely very high-altitude cloud edges of condensed convection. The auroras, shown in red in this image, extend to higher altitudes over both the planet's north and south poles. In contrast, dark bands north The equatorial region has no cloud caps. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Huasso (UPV), Imeka de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouche (Paris Observatory), Lee Fletcher (University of Leicester), Michael H Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Fast and furious: Jupiter's secret jet stream accelerates up to 500 km/h

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The James Webb Space Telescope discovered a previously unseen jet stream in Jupiter's atmosphere. Similar phenomena have been observed in Saturn, and both may be related to temperature variations in the atmospheres of the gas giants
At left, Ganymede, Europa and Io—the three Jovian moons passed by NASA's Juno probe—as well as Jupiter itself, as shown in an image illustration created from data collected by the probe's JunoCam camera. Credit: Image data: NASA /JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Photo processing: Kevin M. Age (CC BY); Thomas Thompoulos (CC BY)

Juno passes by Io tomorrow (30/7).

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Io is a raging volcanic world. NASA researchers are specifically looking at a "hot spot" observed by several spacecraft orbiting Jupiter that has grown from snapshot to snapshot
A team led by SwRI discovered intermittent evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, giant swirling waves, at the boundary between Jupiter's magnetosphere and the solar wind that fills interplanetary space. The model here is from scientists at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in a 2017 GRL paper. Credit: UCAR/Zhang, et.al

The Juno spacecraft encounters giant swirling waves at the edge of Jupiter's magnetosphere

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Researchers have discovered that the Juno spacecraft often encounters giant swirling waves at the boundary between the solar wind and Jupiter's magnetosphere
The launch of the JUICE spacecraft from the Coro Space Center in French Guiana. Screenshot from the European Space Agency and Ariane Space TV

The JUICE spacecraft was launched to the moons of Jupiter

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The launch at Coro in French Guiana was postponed from yesterday due to weather conditions * The spacecraft is carrying ten instruments, some of which are also made in Israel * Will arrive in the Zedek system in July 2031
The JUICE spacecraft is placed on top of the Ariane 5 launcher in Kourou, French Guinea, March 2023. Photo: ESA

The launch of the JUICE spacecraft to Jupiter's moons has been postponed to tomorrow 14/4 15:14

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The Juice spacecraft (JUPiter ICy moons Explorer), is a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), planned to explore three of Jupiter's icy moons: Ganymede, Europa and Callisto. The mission is supposed to
JUICE operation schedule. Infographic: European Space Agency

The European spacecraft JUICE is ready to explore the icy moons of Jupiter; Will be launched on 13/4

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The purpose of the operation - to find out if the oceans hidden beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moons have the potential to support extraterrestrial life
Exploring Jupiter and Ganymede using the JUICE spacecraft - artist impression. Figure: European Space Agency

The Israeli point of the JUICE spacecraft that will be launched to Tzedek this week

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The European Space Agency ESA will launch on 13/4 the JUICE spacecraft on the historic mission to Jupiter, with technologies and scientific research funded by the Israel Space Agency at the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology
Composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green) and F150W2 (blue) – and alignment due to the rotation of the planet. Taken from the NIRCam instrument Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS crew; image processing by Judy Schmidt.

The Webb Space Telescope observed Jupiter as never before

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Self-contained robotic microswimmers, deployed from a component that penetrated the icy crust of a moon containing a subsurface ocean. Not to scale. NASA/JPL

NASA is considering sending swimming robots to "ocean worlds" that might be suitable for life

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In fact, the environment in these oceans is very similar to the environment of the earth at the time when life began
This image from the Juno spacecraft captures many swirling clouds in Jupiter's dynamic north-northern temperate belt. Credit: courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Jupiter was discovered to be inhomogeneous - the metallicity reveals new clues about the origin of the planet

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An international team of astronomers found that the gaseous mantle of Jupiter is not homogeneously distributed. The inner part has more metals than the outer parts, and they amount to 11 to 30 Earth masses and make up 3-9% of the mass
This image allows us to see the dense dusty regions of space where star formation occurs. G. Li Causi, IAPS/INAF, Italy, CC BY

On the occasion of the launch of the Webb Space Telescope: the five most exciting telescope images of the universe

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Astronomers rarely use their telescopes just to take pictures. The images in astrophysics are usually created by a process of scientific inference and imagination, the visual expression of which is sometimes an artist's impression of what emerges
This JunoCam image shows two of Jupiter's largest circumstellar storms, taken on Juno's 38th transit of Jupiter's periapsis on November 29, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing: Kevin M. Gill CC BY

The Juno spacecraft closely observed storms on Jupiter and "heard" Jupiter's moon Ganymede - listen to the dramatic flyby of the icy moon

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A dramatic ride with an audio track collected during the Jupiter mission's flyby of Ganymede — one of the highlights mission scientists shared in an overview at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union
Jupiter's Great Red Spot as captured by Juno's camera lens. Its size is the size of the earth

How deep is the most famous spot in the solar system

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and their partners on NASA's Juno space mission have revealed a series of new findings about the planet Jupiter and found a surprising similarity to Earth
This figure depicts the Lucy spacecraft in the vicinity of the Trojan asteroid (617) Patroclus and its companion Mannotius (double asteroid). Lucy will be the first mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids - ancient remnants of the outer solar system trapped in the giant planet's orbit. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez

NASA launched the Lucy spacecraft to fly by eight "Trojan" asteroids

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Lucy will fly up to 400 km from the surface of its targets - asteroids that are in sync with the planet Jupiter, and will use its instruments and large antennas to study their geology,
This image shows an artist's impression of the Martian moon Ganymede. Astronomers used archive data from the Hubble Space Telescope to discover the first evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the result of thermal escape of water vapor from ice on the moon's surface. Credit: ESA/Hubble, J. daSilva

Hubble finds first evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede

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The oxygen found in the frozen world is linked to the sublimation of ground ice
Six cyclones at the south pole of Jupiter, as captured by the infrared lens of the Juno probe in February 2017. Beautifully arranged and shaped like a rose cake. Source: NASA

The mystery of Jupiter's cyclones

They are powerful, they are the size of Australia and no one imagined them until a few years ago - what is the secret of the storms at the poles of the largest planet in the solar system?
This is how the planets will look on Monday evening (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/TNS)

Today's reminder this afternoon is a rare conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter

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At the time of conjunction, both planets will be seen in the west direction, just after sunset over the southwestern horizon close to the setting sun. The next close gathering - in March 2080 * and how it is related to the road
Jupiter formed at a distance four times greater from the Sun than its current position today, according to a new simulation. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The long journey he did justice to reach his current trajectory

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Jupiter's Red Spot as imaged by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Justice had growth disorders

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The orbits of the newly discovered moons around the planet Jupiter. Illustration: Roberto Molar-Candanosa, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science.

12 new moons have been discovered for Jupiter, one of which has an orbit crossing the orbits of moons moving in the opposite direction

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot, as seen by JunoCam on July 10, 2017. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart.

Juno reveals the depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

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The Great Red Spot, in a processed image of Juno. Source: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Jason Major.

Juno passed over Jupiter's Great Red Spot for the first time

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The south pole of Jupiter, from a distance of 52,000 km. The image consists of photographs from three different planes, to create a uniform image of the entire pole, while the original photographs could only photograph the illuminated half of the pole. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS /Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles.

Justice needs to be seen: The Israelis who explore what lies beneath the cloud cover of the largest planet in the solar system

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The south pole of Jupiter, from a distance of 52,000 km. The image consists of photographs from three different planes, to create a uniform image of the entire pole, while the original photographs could only photograph the illuminated half of the pole. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS /Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles.

A wonderful new world: the Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter as we have never known it

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Imaging of the Cassini spacecraft passing through the water jets of the moon Enceladus. The close flyby she made through the jets in 2015 allowed her to detect molecular hydrogen in the water jets and strengthen the possibility that the environment in the sub-glacial ocean from which the jets emanate supports the existence of life. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA unveils new discoveries from the ocean worlds of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn

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Amalthea as photographed by one of the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979. Source: NASA/Calvin J. Hamilton.

On Amalthea, a month of Jupiter

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Processing of one of the images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in ultraviolet radiation. Note the light blue structures that protrude from the surface of Europa's moon into space (at the bottom of the moon on the left side, 7 o'clock). Further tests revealed that these were most likely water eruptions from the surface of the moon.

Is there life on the moon Europa?

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Simulation of the lander. According to the proposal, the lander will be launched between 2024-2025 and will arrive several years after the arrival of the EMFM probe, which will make many flybys near Europe. It will be able to photograph it at a very high resolution to find safe but scientifically interesting landing sites, and roly noses like the one described in the simulation - near plumes of water coming out as geysers from the moon Atal past Hal, and it is estimated that, if they do exist in Europe, they originate in its sub-ice ocean. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA is considering developing a lander to search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa

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Jupiter's south pole, in a Juno color-processed image from February 2, 2017. The image was taken from a distance of 102,100 km. Source: NASA.

Juno successfully completed its fourth flyby of Jupiter

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An artist's illustration of the surface of Proxima b, an Earth-like world orbiting the closest star to the Sun - Proxima Centauri. Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser

2016: a fascinating scientific year

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Jupiter as photographed in 2014 by the Hubble Space Telescope. You can see that the red spot has shrunk a lot in a process that lasted about thirty years. Photo: NASA/ESA

Is Jupiter's Great Spot causing its upper atmosphere to warm?

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The Juno spacecraft hovers over Jupiter. Image: NASA

The Juno spacecraft arriving at Jupiter this morning will investigate, among other things, whether the giant planet has a core

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Geyser on the moon Europa. Image: NASA

The moon Europa returns to the center stage of the search for water and life

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The moon Europa. Photo: NASA. Processing: shutterstock

European brown salt

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Jupiter - shutterstock rendering of an original NASA image

A small blow to a large planet

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The planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

An Israeli atomic clock will be launched to the planet Jupiter

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Jupiter and its four Galilean moons. Illustration: shutterstock

Towards the continuation of the investigation of Jupiter and its moons

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The icy and mysterious surface of 'Europa' as photographed by the spacecraft 'Galileo'

An astrobiologist suggests possible types of landing sites that would allow the detection of signs of life if these exist in the subsurface oceans

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NASA has selected scientific instruments for a future mission to Europa's moon

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