Sentences with phrase «juno probe»

On July 4, NASA's Juno probe arrived safely at Jupiter.

NASA's Juno probe, which went into orbit on July 4,2016, could change all that.

NASA's Juno probe just sent back the best and most detailed images ever of Jupiter's polar regions.

The images are in from the Juno probe's closest flyby so far of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

But since NASA's Juno probe reached the solar system's largest planet last July, they've found it to be a far more tempestuous place than they realized.

Next week, NASA's Juno probe arrives at Jupiter, where it will be able to study this interaction up close.

PASADENA, Calif. — Jupiter's stripes are more than skin deep, according to observations by NASA's Juno probe, which has revealed many new surprises about the Jovian giant.

NASA's Juno probe entered Jupiter's orbit in the fading hours of July 4, giving American researchers one more reason to celebrate.

What's more, preliminary data from NASA's Juno probe, also presented at the AGU meeting, suggests its speed was as expected as it flew by Earth, casting doubt on the earlier anomalies.

Whereas the newly discovered southern hot spot (seen at infrared wavelengths by instruments on the Juno probe now orbiting Jupiter) pulses once every 9 to 11 minutes, the northern x-ray hot spot has, in the past, been observed pulsing at rates of once every 12 minutes, once every 26 minutes, and once every 40 to 45 minutes.

NASA's Juno probe has made the closest ever approach to Jupiter, skimming just 4200 kilometres above its clouds at a speed of 208,000 kilometres per hour.

Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 mph, NASA's $ 1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24.

Not exact matches

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.

During these flybys, Juno will probe beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and study its auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

Juno will spend the next 20 months orbiting Jupiter, figuring out how much water vapor hides beneath the clouds, mapping the planet's internal structure and probing its vast magnetic...

The Ulysses solar probe flew over the poles en route to the sun, but it didn't carry a camera nor did it get as close as Juno will.

Juno's scientific instruments were switched off on June 29 before the probe slid into its first of 37 orbits, so there are no pictures to celebrate its arrival.

While other probes have extensively photographed much of the planet, Juno is the first to get an intimate look at the north and south poles.

The Juno spacecraft, launched Aug. 5, 2011, has blankets coated with germanium, a metalized material that conducts electricity; and Kapton, a high - temperature plastic film, to ensure that the surface of the blankets reflects sunlight and remains grounded while the probe gathers data from the highly charged environment around Jupiter.

Provided their spacecraft stays healthy and funded, the Juno team is contemplating additional measurements that could further probe Jupiter's interior, such as monitoring tidal bulges raised by large moons whipping around the planet.

Juno's radiometer will probe to a depth of about 500 kilometers.

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.

On Aug. 27, the probe made a close flyby of the planet, during which, the science team was supposed to calibrate Juno's instruments and get familiar with the intense environment around Jupiter, according to Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton.

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.

The researchers are looking forward to testing their predictions with real data from Jupiter, and they won't have to wait long: NASA's Juno space probe is orbiting Jupiter right now, collecting data about its atmosphere, magnetic field and interior.

Thanks to probes like Voyager, Galileo and now Juno, we can see these phenomena in much greater detail than ever before.

But many missions, like Juno and Solar Probe Plus, fly by Venus on their way to other targets.

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.

Probing the depth of Jupiter's Great Red Spot with the Juno gravity experiment.