Since the beginning of the year, the downlink rate of Juice has been dropping dramatically to only 1/6th of usual data rate.
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Posted inAstrogeology, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes, Io, Jupiter, Lava / magma ocean / Volcanic Worlds, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Press Release
How Io Became The Most Volcanic Body In Our Solar System
Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Exploration Gear & Tech, Gas Giants, Icy Worlds, Jupiter, Saturn, Status Report
Simultaneous Evolutionary Fits for Jupiter and Saturn Incorporating Fuzzy Cores
With the recent realization that there likely are stably-stratified regions in the interiors of both Jupiter and Saturn, we construct new non-adiabatic, inhomogeneous evolutionary models with the same microphysics for […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Jupiter, Neptune, Press Release, Saturn, Uranus
Hubble Celebrates A Decade Of Tracking Outer Planets
Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Collectively, since their launch in 1977, the twin […]
Posted inEuropa, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Jupiter, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Radiation, Status Report
What Would The Nightside Of Europa Look Like?
This illustration of Jupiter’s moon Europa shows how the icy surface may glow on its nightside, the side facing away from the Sun.
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Cryobiology, Europa, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Jupiter, Missions & Hardware, Status Report
Astrobiology Explorer Europa Clipper’s Trajectory To Jupiter
On its journey to the Jupiter system, NASA’s Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth, using the gravity of each planet as a slingshot to […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Europa, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Jupiter, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Europa Clipper Astrobiology Mission Is Deploying Instruments
NASA’s Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth. Two science instruments have deployed hardware […]
Posted inEuropa, Ganymede, Icy Worlds, Jupiter, Microbiology & Virology, Missions & Hardware, Planetary Protection & Biosafety, Radiation, Status Report, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Europa Clipper Planetary Protection Probabilistic Risk Assessment Summary
Protecting Jupiter’s Icy Moons from the Earth’s biological contamination is a key consideration for the Europa Clipper mission. The mission’s goal is to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and investigate its […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Apps - Games, Astrogeology, Europa, Icy Worlds, Jupiter, Status Report
MultIHeaTS: A Fast and Stable Thermal Solver for Multilayered Planetary Surfaces
A fully implicit scheme is proposed for solving the heat equation in 1D heterogeneous media, available as a computationally efficient open-source Python code. The algorithm uses finite differences on an […]
Posted inGas Giants, Jupiter, Press Release
Mystery Of Famed Brown Dwarf Gliese 229B Solved
Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing […]