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With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth ...
The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...
Thanks to your help over the last two years, the Jovian Vortex Hunter project has ... and locations on the planet. For example, your work showed that white and dark vortices are preferentially ...
Juno is scheduled for an upcoming flyby of Jupiter on May 7, during which it is set to carry out a close approach of the Jovian moon Io at a distance of about 55,300 miles (89,000 kilometers).
In the great tug-of-war between the Sun and its planets, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus are much more susceptible to solar activities than scientists thought. Jupiter itself has an interesting reaction ...
Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows ...