NASA Budget Shuts Out Icy Moons Mission
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2006
NASA's budget document for fiscal year 2007 contains 451 pages and nearly 150,000 words, but nowhere in that sea of text is one word mentioned that represents great importance to certain members of the scientific and astronomical communities: Europa.
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Jupiter's Massive Winds Likely Generated From Deep Inside Its Interior
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2005
A new computer model indicates Jupiter's massive winds are generated from deep within the giant planet's interior, a UCLA scientist and international colleagues report last Thursday in the journal Nature.
University Of Alberta Scientist Offers Clues To Windy Jupiter
Edmonton AB (SPX) Nov 14, 2005
Look closely at a giant planet like Jupiter and you can actually see a powerful system of winds at work right on the surface.
Organised Wind Chaos On Jupiter
Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 10, 2005
Scientists from the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and the University of California Los Angeles, have now presented a new three-dimensional computer model that successfully describes and explains all important characteristics of the banded flows on Jupiter.
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Computer Simulation Suggests Mechanisms The Drive Jovian Jet Streams
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Sep 07, 2005
Turbulence driven by sunlight and thunderstorm activity may explain the multiple east-west jet streams on Jupiter and Saturn and even produce strong winds extending hundreds or thousands of kilometers into the interior, far below the altitudes where the jets are driven.
The Lure Of Europa
Calgary AB (SPX) Sep 02, 2005
The discovery that Jupiter's moon Europa most likely has a cold, salty ocean beneath its frozen icy crust has put Europa on the short list of objects in our solar system that astrobiologists would like to study further.
Icy Jupiter Moon Throws A Curve Ball At Formation Theories
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 01, 2005
Scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft have found that Jupiter's moon Amalthea is a pile of icy rubble less dense than water. Scientists expected moons closer to the planet to be rocky and not icy. The finding shakes up long-held theories of how moons form around giant planets.
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NASA Selects New Frontiers Mission Concept Study
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 01, 2005
NASA announced Wednesday that a mission to fly to Jupiter will proceed to a preliminary design phase. The mission is called Juno, and it is the second in NASA's New Frontiers Program.
Jupiter: A Cloudy Mirror For The Sun?
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2005
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton telescope have discovered that observing the giant planet Jupiter may actually give them an insight in to solar activity on the far side of the Sun!
Chandra Probes High-Voltage Auroras On Jupiter
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 03, 2005
Scientists have obtained new insight into the unique power source for many of Jupiter's auroras, the most spectacular and active auroras in the Solar System.
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Space Scientist Proposes New Model For Jupiter's Core
St Louis MO (SPX) Dec 14, 2004
After eleven months of politics, now it's time for some real "core values" - not those of the candidates but those of the great gas giant planet, Jupiter.
The Moon Eclipses Jupiter
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 30, 2004
Picture this: You're an astronaut driving a moon buggy across the dusty plains of Mare Crisium. It's nighttime, but not dark. There's a big bright gibbous Earth hanging low behind your back, and it lights up the moonscape, softly, as far as the eye can see. You turn off the headlights and hit the accelerator.
Jupiter's Gets All Spotty In Rare Triple Moon Transit
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2004
At first glance, Jupiter looks like it has a mild case of the measles. Five spots - one colored white, one blue, and three black - are scattered across the upper half of the planet.
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