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A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...
Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.
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 ...
For instance, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode relatively recently as scientists worked on remedying some ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during a recent close pass of Jupiter, temporarily halting science operations.
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Data received from NASA's Juno mission indicates the solar-powered spacecraft went into safe mode twice on April 4 while the ...
In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...
The culprit was probably Jupiter's incredibly intense radiation belts. There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.