Jupiter

2022 - 9 - 26

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Jaw-dropping images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space ... (Cincinnati.com)

Astronomers operating the James Webb Space Telescope have been sharing dramatic close-up images of Jupiter. You can even see its rings.

Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and is even bigger than the planet Mercury. Through even a simple backyard scope, you can see the disc of the planet, the two largest cloud bands and the four largest moons. Through a moderate telescope, if it is facing front and center, you can even see the Great Red Spot. Jupiter has a smaller system of rings than the planet Saturn that are nearly invisible to all ground-based telescopes. With an equatorial diameter of about 88,000 miles and a mass 318 times that of Earth, Jupiter is easily the largest planet in our solar system. Tucked away at the far reaches of our solar system, Neptune is about seven times farther away from Earth than Jupiter. If you look at Jupiter through a pair of binoculars, you may notice a few dots on either side of it. The surface that you see in pictures is only the upper layer of hydrogen clouds – Jupiter’s ever-changing weather – complete with the Great Red Spot. Its mission is to repeatedly skim just above the atmosphere and explore the composition and magnetic field of Jupiter. These parts of the Sun interact with each other and light up to produce the auroras on both planets. Jupiter is not a solid planet like Earth. Is it a plane?

Pictures of Jupiter Last Night, Monday, September 26, 2022 (Green Matters)

People captured some incredible pictures of Jupiter close to Earth last night, Sept. 26, 2022.

Even though Jupiter is still hundreds of thousands of miles away from us on Earth, the Gas Giant never felt closer than it did last night. Perhaps the most impressive image taken of Jupiter on Sept. People across every corner of our home planet gazed upwards to catch a glimpse of the Gas Giant, and fortunately, many people captured some incredible [Jupiter and a few of its moons](https://twitter.com/jurneesphotos/status/1574626880455483392). [Home](https://www.greenmatters.com/)> [Big Impact](https://www.greenmatters.com/big-impact)> [News](https://www.greenmatters.com/news) 26.](https://www.greenmatters.com/news/when-will-jupiter-be-closest-to-earth)

Jupiter is coming its closest to Earth in decades (WLRN)

The gas giant Jupiter is coming the closest it has come to Earth in 59 years this Monday and will be particularly visible because it coincides with another ...

[released new images](https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1118959461/jupiter-james-webb-telescope-photos-nasa) of Jupiter and its moons taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. "So I would say that it's a good thing to take advantage of and to look at no matter where you're at." When in opposition, a planet is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun, so you could draw a straight line from the sun to Earth to Jupiter, all in alignment. Separately, Jupiter is coming closer to Earth than it has since 1963. Looking from the Earth, when the sun sets in the west, Jupiter will rise in the east, directly opposite. When it's closest on Monday, Jupiter will be about 367 million miles from Earth,

NASA performs fly-by on icy Jupiter moon to scout for alien life (Evening Standard)

ASA's Juno spacecraft will get close to one of Jupiter's moons for the first time in more than two decades. The moon, Europa, is an icy rock, ...

It will also seek to learn more about the moon’s ionosphere, which is part of its atmosphere, and how the moon interacts with [moon](/topic/moon), Europa, is an icy rock, slightly smaller than our own moon. It’s thought that learning more about the conditions on the moon could help researchers to learn whether it is already sustaining some kind of life - or if it could support life in the future.

Jupiter Moon Could Support Life: NASA spacecraft will probe the ... (The Scotsman)

Water trapped underneath the icy crust of Jupiter's moon 'Europa' may be able to sustain life and NASA's spacecraft 'Juno' is nearby and going to ...

[blog](http://go.skimresources.com/?id=125352X1647774&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic.com%2Fastrobiology%2Fgoldilocks-worlds%2F%23%3A%7E%3Atext%3DOf%2520the%25201%252C780%2520confirmed%2520planets%2Cwill%2520have%2520a%2520crushing%2520atmosphere.&sref=https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/jupiter-moon-could-support-life-nasa-spacecraft-will-probe-the-moons-crust-and-see-if-its-suitable-for-life-3858044) wrote: “Of the 1,780 confirmed planets beyond our solar system, as many as 16 are located in their star’s habitable zone, where conditions are neither too hot nor too cold to support life.” Such zones are also known as “Goldilocks’ Zones” as the thermal conditions are neither "too hot nor too cold” to support life in theory. [NASA](https://www.scotsman.com/topic/nasa) reports that the ice-covered oceans of Europa - a [moon](https://www.scotsman.com/topic/moon) of Jupiter which is currently the [closest it has been to Earth in 59 years](https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/jupiter-makes-closest-approach-to-earth-in-59-years-when-is-jupiter-visible-in-the-uk-why-is-it-closer-now-3854854) - could host alien life. [Exoplanet Exploration website](https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/), there are many recorded planets that could theoretically support life because they exist in a “habitable zone”. [Earth](https://www.scotsman.com/topic/earth), it’s possible that this type of life could also exist on Europa.” [website](https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/mission/tour/flybys/), a flyby spacecraft has a limited opportunity to gather data - once it has flown past the planet it “cannot return to recover any lost data.”

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Will Perform Close Flyby of Jupiter's Icy ... (SciTechDaily)

As the Juno spacecraft makes a close approach of the moon Europa, it is expected to provide valuable science – and remarkable imagery – for NASA's upcoming ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott J. [Stellar Reference Unit](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/instrument/SRU?order=Xdim*Ydim*Zdim&sort=ASC)) will take a high-resolution black-and-white image of Europa’s surface. Europa Clipper will gather data on the moon’s atmosphere, surface, and interior. [JunoCam](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/to-jupiter-with-junocam) (a public-engagement camera). Juno’s Microwave Radiometer (MWR) will gaze into Europa’s water-ice crust to obtain data on its composition and temperature. The spacecraft’s Jupiter Energetic-Particle Detector Instrument (JEDI) and its medium-gain (X-band) radio antenna will collect data on Europa’s ionosphere. In June 2021, the mission [explored Ganymede](https://scitechdaily.com/see-the-dramatic-first-images-nasas-juno-spacecraft-captured-as-it-sailed-by-the-icy-orb-ganymede/) and plans include making close approaches of Io in 2023 and 2024. Its Waves, Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE), and Magnetometer (MAG) experiments will measure plasma in the moon’s wake as Juno explores Europa’s interaction with Jupiter’s magnetosphere. “We have the right equipment to do the job, but to capture a plume will require a lot of luck,” said Bolton. “The relative velocity between spacecraft and moon will be 14.7 miles per second (23.6 kilometers per second), so we are screaming by pretty fast,” said John Bordi, Juno deputy mission manager at JPL. EDT), NASA’s Juno spacecraft will come within 222 miles (358 kilometers) of the surface of Jupiter’s ice-covered moon, Europa. “Europa is such an intriguing Jovian moon, it is the focus of its own future NASA mission,” said Juno Principal Investigator Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft About to Get Crazy Close to Jupiter Moon ... (CNET)

Get ready for knockout pictures of Jupiter's intriguing moon, considered a top candidate for hosting alien life in our solar system.

[mission extension in 2021](/science/nasa-extends-mars-insight-and-jupiter-juno-missions-for-more-years-of-science/) that tasked it with studying the gas giant's rings and some of its biggest moons. It will also seek to learn more about the moon's ionosphere (part of its atmosphere) and how the moon interacts with Jupiter. The spacecraft's instruments will investigate the composition and temperature of the moon's icy shell. NASA expects it will send back some of the highest-resolution images ever taken of the intriguing moon. 29](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-will-perform-close-flyby-of-jupiter-s-icy-moon-europa). [NASA's](/tags/nasa/) Juno spacecraft is about to get super cozy with Jupiter moon Europa.