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," Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research ...
Jupiter’s poles have long been a focus of intrigue for planetary scientists. Recent studies have uncovered massive dark ultraviolet (UV) ovals at the gas giant’s north and south poles.
Dark UV ovals were first detected by Hubble in the late 1990s at the north and south poles and subsequently at the north pole by the Cassini spacecraft that flew by Jupiter in 2000, but they drew ...
It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest pass over Jupiter's south pole, Juno snapped a series of images ...
Mapping the magnetic and gravity fields should also expose Jupiter's structure. NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko JunoCam has seen giant cyclones at the poles But images from JunoCam - a camera that ...
20, when it dipped close to Jupiter's cloud tops. The first mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Jupiter as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on April 8, 2023 during its ...
ROTATION OF JUPITER.—Most of the determinations of ... and little has been known as to the conditions of rotation near the poles. This is due to the fact that conspicuous and sufficiently ...