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Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was

The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just ...

NASA’s Juno mission reveals Jupiter is smaller and more 'squashed' than previously estimated

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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Farewell to the Jupiter of textbooks—the Juno probe reveals a smaller, flatter planet—and NASA prepares for changes

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...

The shocking revelation about Jupiter’s true appearance: ‘Textbooks will need to be updated’

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
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Jupiter isn’t as big as we thought, here’s what scientists just discovered

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has just gotten a bit smaller, at least according to the latest data. New ...

Jupiter’s New Measurements: Flatter, Squashed, Still the Biggest Boy

According to this early data, Jupiter’s equatorial radius was around 44,423 miles (71,492 kilometers), and its polar radius ...
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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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NASA Juno electronics study Jupiter: Gravity Science Experiment

The Juno spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter has a suite of science instruments which will investigate the existence of a possible solid planetary core, map Jupiter’s intense magnetic field, measure the ...
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What if you could survive on the moons of Jupiter?

Jupiter is the king of moons. With 95 of them orbiting the gas giant, some are so large they rival planets in size. But what ...
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Last-Minute Software Patch Saves Jupiter Probe Ahead of Critical Venus Flyby

An exceptionally heavy interplanetary probe is on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, using the gravity of Earth and Venus to propel it on its path toward the gas giant. Just weeks before its scheduled ...