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Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was
The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just got more precise, and it turns out there's slightly less of the giant than ...
Between 7 satellite fly-bys and 2 dedicated missions, you'd think our knowledge about Jupiter would be pretty solid, but ...
“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...
Hubble’s Planetary Portrait Captures New Changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter the first in a series of annual portraits ...
The first global map of the largest moon in the solar system — Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons — shows a sharp contrast between older cratered areas and newer, lighter terrain. The map was published ...
According to this early data, Jupiter’s equatorial radius was around 44,423 miles (71,492 kilometers), and its polar radius ...
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Giant falls short: Juno finds Jupiter thinner at equator than previously thought
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
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 ...
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