Sentences with phrase «juno mission»

Early results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the giant planet as a complex world with Earth - sized polar cyclones, deep - diving storm systems, and a lumpy magnetic field generated deeper than once thought.

Coherent cyclones are recognizable in the simulation, similar to those observed by the Juno mission in 2016.

Similar cyclonic vortices have recently been observed by the Juno mission.

The movie utilizes imagery derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission during its fourth pass over the massive planet.

More content from Apple and NASA will feature popular scientists Bill Nye, who's been involved with promoting the Juno mission from it conception, according to the space agency.

In many ways, the Juno mission is a groundbreaking one for NASA: It's the first solar - powered mission to the outer planets and the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole.

The Juno mission set out to probe the hidden properties of Jupiter, such as its gravitational field, the depth of its atmospheric jets and its composition beneath the clouds.

But the new observations do hint at what NASA's Juno mission might find.

Bolton is leading the Juno mission.

He also heads the Juno mission.

(NASA's Juno mission is now gathering data during repeated close flybys of Jupiter's cloud tops.)

He works with the radar and other instruments on Cassini, is co-investigator on the Juno mission launched in 2011 to Jupiter and on the near - infrared spectrometer under development for the Europa Multiple Flyby mission.

MSSS also built the suite of high resolution cameras aboard the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and has delivered four science cameras for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to Jupiter.

MSSS delivered the Junocam instrument in May 2011 for the NASA - JPL Juno mission to Jupiter.

NASA's Juno mission is rewriting what planetary researchers thought they knew about Jupiter, the largest and most massive planet in our Solar System:...

The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala..

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter is just a third of the way through its daring adventure, and it has already revolutionized our knowledge of the gas giant.

MSSS is currently completing a camera for the Juno mission to Jupiter (2011) and a second pair of cameras for the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), has delivered the camera it has developed for NASA's 2011 Juno mission to Jupiter.

The Juno mission launched in August, 2011, and arrived at Jupiter nearly five years later in July, 2016.

Scott Bolton, the Juno mission's principal investigator, is based at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

Using radio - wavelength data collected this year by NASA's Juno mission, researchers have found that signatures of the Great Red Spot persist roughly 300 kilometers into Jupiter.

High - resolution thermal imaging of Jupiter by the COoled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea is providing information that extends and enhances the information that the Juno mission is gathering in its unprecedented mission to probe that planet's interior and deep atmospheric structure together with details of the magnetosphere and its auroral interactions with the planet.

This image shows the detailed atmospheric structure of the Great Red Spot and its surroundings that the Juno mission will encounter on its seventh closest approach to Jupiter on July 11, 2017.

«The Subaru observations of Jupiter so far this year have been timed to coordinate with the greatest benefit to Juno mission,» said Glenn Orton, PI for the portion of the Keck Telescope exchange time with the Subaru Telescope and coordinator for Earth - based observations supporting the Juno project at JPL.

Hoping to learn more, he contributed ideas for NASA's Juno mission, which blasted off in August.

The dramatic findings complement NASA's Juno mission this summer which aims to understand the relationship between the two biggest structures in the solar system — the region of space controlled by Jupiter's magnetic field (i.e. its magnetosphere) and that controlled by the solar wind.

The most visible symbol of this new way of doing things is the optical camera on the Juno mission: its contribution to science is seemingly nil; it flies solely for public entertainment.

The Juno mission to Jupiter (shown) is sure to make headlines in 2017.

But, of course, Bolton noted, no probe has ever come this close to Jupiter before, and the purpose of the Juno mission is to gather data that will put models like those to the test.

This summer NASA's Juno mission will add a ninth trajectory.

NASA's ongoing Juno mission, revealing what lies beneath Jupiter's cloud tops and in its atmosphere, has upended many long - held theories about the king of the planets.

Two spacecraft currently en route to the Jupiter system — the European Space Agency's JUICE mission and NASA's Juno mission — may be able to observe the plumes at close range.

The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system's largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.

Early science results from NASA's Juno mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, energetic polar aurora, and huge polar cyclones.

«I have been following the Juno mission since it launched,» said Jason Major, a JunoCam citizen scientist and a graphic designer from Warwick, Rhode Island.

This composite image, derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, shows the central cyclone at the planet's north pole and the eight cyclones that encircle it.

«We're at the beginning of dissecting Jupiter,» says Juno mission leader Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

«We went in with a preconceived notion of how Jupiter worked, and I would say we have to eat some humble pie,» says Juno mission leader Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

«We're going to see beneath the cloud tops for the very first time,» says Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and head of the Juno mission.

The Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) on the Juno mission to Jupiter.

So Bolton and colleagues came up with another idea, one that would become the Juno mission.

On October 9th, 2013, NASA's Juno mission completed an Earth «flyby» to gain a little extra velocity (a gravitational slingshot maneuver that steals a tiny bit of Earth's momentum) to get it to Jupiter in 2016.

Stewart says the study should help NASA's Juno mission come up with better models of Jupiter's interior layers when the spacecraft goes into orbit around the planet in July 2016.

The SwRI - led Juno mission discovered that Jupiter's signature bands disappear near its poles.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, SwRI's Bolton.

JPL manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter.

NASA's Juno mission will reach Jupiter in 2016, and the authors hope that this mission will provide information that will extend their current examinations to three dimensions.

Previous missions selected by New Frontiers include New Horizons, a nuclear - powered probe that flew by Pluto in 2015 and is now going deeper into the Kuiper Belt; OSIRIS - REx, a robot that's flying out to meet asteroid Bennu and bring a sample of it back to Earth; and the Juno mission, which is looping around Jupiter, recording unprecedented data and breathtaking images of the planet.