Jan 22, 2025 · Use this tool to compare Jupiter to Earth, and other planets. The first detailed observations of Jupiter were made by Galileo Galilei in 1610 with a small, homemade telescope. More recently, this planet has been studied by orbiters, probes, and spacecraft passing by on their way to other worlds.

Oct 11, 2024 · The spacecraft's name is Juno and it's orbiting Jupiter to figure out what's inside the planet and how it came to be. The real Juno is millions of miles away. It took five years to get that far. But making your own Juno spacecraft is fast. And you can even use your spacecraft to uncover secrets beneath Jupiter – just like the real Juno.

Jan 14, 2025 · Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. It is actually more than twice as massive than the other planets of our solar system combined. Jupiter is a gas giant. It is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter has a very thick atmosphere. Jupiter has rings, but they’re very hard to see.

Jan 4, 2025 · Help scientists analyze the stunning images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft! A NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vortex Hunter, seeks your help spotting vortices – spiral wind patterns – and other phenomena in gorgeous photos of the planet Jupiter.

Nov 6, 2024 · NASA’s Europa Clipper launched on Oct. 14, 2024, and will reach Jupiter in 2030. During dozens of flybys, the spacecraft will investigate Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to determine whether there are places below the surface that could support life. Explore

Juno is a NASA spacecraft to help scientists learn more about Jupiter. Juno launched August 5, 2011, and it went into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The slowly spinning spacecraft orbits around Jupiter's poles instead of around its middle.

May 25, 2017 · Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet ...

NASA's Mission Juno is exploring Jupiter, seeking to unlock secrets of the giant planet and our solar system.

7 hours ago · Gravity Assist to Reach Jupiter. Launched this past October, Europa Clipper will arrive at Jupiter in 2030 to investigate whether an ocean beneath the ice shell of the gas giant’s moon Europa has conditions suitable for life. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) to reach its destination.

Radio JOVE students and amateur scientists from around the world observe and analyze natural radio emissions of Jupiter, the Sun, and our galaxy using their own easy to construct radio telescopes.