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Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now — it could have held 2,000 Earths
The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...
Citizen science contributes to imaging Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes ...
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The first photos of Jupiter's poles are 'like nothing we have seen or imagined before'
briefly making Juno the fastest human-made object ever launched. Gaze in awe at this moody, first image of Jupiter's swirling north pole: "[I]t looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before ...
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NASA’s Juno snapped another photo of Jupiter that looks like a watercolor painting
NASA, which regularly shows off some of Juno’s best work, took the time to highlight a particularly cool-looking photo of Jupiter’s iconic cloud patterns that was snapped back on April 1st. As ...
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NASA's Juno probe gets its first close look at Jupiter
Soaring about 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) above the planet's clouds, NASA's Juno space probe had its closest-ever look at Jupiter Saturday. The pass was the first of 36 planned orbital flybys ...
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Juno enters Jupiter's orbit: probe reaches solar system’s gas giant
Nasa’s Juno spacecraft reached Jupiter on Monday after a five-year voyage to begin exploring the king of the planets. Ground controllers erupted in applause when the solar-powered spacecraft ...