NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...
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Bizarre chaos erupts on Jupiter as scientists say it’s no longer acting like a normal planet
Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show the gas giant is slightly ...
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Textbook numbers shift as Juno pins down Jupiter’s true shape
Jupiter shrunk not; the yardstick improved. The largest planet of the solar system has been used decades as a sort of calibration beacon: a “known” giant, whose existence largely goes unnoticed, whose ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds Jupiter’s diameter slightly smaller than old estimates, providing precise data on the gas ...
The Juno observations showed that Jupiter has an equatorial diameter of 88,841 miles (142,976 km), which is about 5 miles (8 ...
New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.
Jupiter's radius is now estimated to be about 5 miles smaller than previously thought, while the distance from pole to pole is about 15 miles less.
Using high-precision radio-occultation measurements from NASA’s Juno mission and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, ...
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Giant falls short: Juno finds Jupiter thinner at equator than previously thought
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
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Deflated: Israeli scientists find Jupiter, though huge, is smaller than previously thought
Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers make most precise measurement to date, say ...
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