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07.14.21
Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter
The probe flew closer to Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of both the icy orb and the gas giant.
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07.13.21
40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter’s X-Ray Flares Uncovered
A puzzler about the gas giant’s intense northern and southern lights has been deciphered.
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07.01.21
Celebrating 5 Years At Jupiter
New eye-catching posters celebrate the five year anniversary of Juno’s orbit insertion at Jupiter in psychedelic style.
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06.08.21
See the First Images NASA’s Juno Took As It Sailed by Ganymede
The spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of the icy orb.
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06.03.21
NASA’s Juno to Get a Close Look at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
The first of the gas-giant orbiter’s back-to-back flybys will provide a close encounter with the massive moon after over 20 years.
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05.18.21
Juno Returns to “Clyde's Spot” on Jupiter
During its 33rd low pass over the cloud tops of Jupiter on April 15, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the intriguing evolution of a feature in the giant planet’s atmosphere known as “Clyde’s Spot.”
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05.03.21
JunoCam: The Little Outreach Camera Addressing Big Science
JunoCam’s close-up pictures of Jupiter’s storms are enabling scientists and amateurs, working together, to understand weather on Jupiter.
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04.01.21
SwRI Scientists Discover a New Auroral Feature On Jupiter
The SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) orbiting Jupiter aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected new faint aurora features, characterized by ring-like emissions, which expand rapidly over time. SwRI scientists determined that charged particles coming from the edge of Jupiter’s massive magnetosphere triggered these auroral emissions.
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03.25.21
Jupiter’s Visible and Invisible Winds
This image from NASA’s Juno mission captures the northern hemisphere of Jupiter around the region known as Jet N7. The planet’s strong winds create the many swirling storms visible near the top of its atmosphere.
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03.16.21
NASA's Juno Reveals Dark Origins to One of Jupiter’s Grand Light Shows
New results from the Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument on NASA’s Juno mission reveal for the first time the birth of auroral dawn storms – the early morning brightening unique to Jupiter’s spectacular aurorae.
