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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 a new study by scientists at SwRI and Princeton, these observations provided important constraints on the potential oxidation of its subsurface ocean
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 scheduled to reach Jupiter in 2031
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 does not have a homogeneous distribution. The inner part has more metals than the outer parts, and they amount to 11 to 30 Earth masses and constitute 3-9% of the total mass of Jupiter. It is likely that these are Jupiter's planets and moons. Bela" at the time of its formation
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 from the data but there are also some gems that are photographed directly
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, including composition, mass, density and volume.
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 closest cluster - in March 2080 * And how does this relate to the way we discover planets outside the solar system?
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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