News About Jupiter 19-NOV-09 en-us Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2009 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft began what would become a 14-year odyssey of exploration 20 years ago this Sunday, Oct. 18. Galileo was humanity's first emissary to orbit a planet in the outer solar system - Jupiter.]]> Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2009 - The global ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa contains about twice the liquid water of all the Earth's oceans combined. New research suggests that there may be plenty of oxygen available in that ocean to support life, a hundred times more oxygen than previously estimated.]]> Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2009 - Studies of features in Jupiter's spectacular and rapidly changing aurorae have given new insights into the complex electromagnetic interactions between the giant planet and two of its innermost moons.]]> Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 17, 2009 - Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of the solar system's largest moon - and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, icy satellite.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2009 - Crater patterns on Vesta and Ceres could help pinpoint when Jupiter began to form during the evolution of the early Solar System. A study modeling the cratering history of the largest two objects in the asteroid belt, which are believed to be among the oldest in the Solar System, indicates that the type and distribution of craters would show marked changes at different stages of Jupiter's development.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Sep 15, 2009 - This is big. But you know that much already. Three hundred and eighty million miles from Earth, the solar system's largest planet spins like a sizzling top in the night, massive and powerful beyond all comparison short of the sun itself. It's therefore only fitting-and certainly about time-that the fifth planet receive its proper cinematic due, set naturally on the most appropriate cinematic platform.]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 27, 2009 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration to take the image of a new, expanding spot on the giant planet on July 23.]]> Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 - Something slammed into Jupiter in the last few days, creating a dark bruise about the size of the Pacific Ocean. The bruise was noticed by an amateur astronomer on Sunday, July 19. University of California, Berkeley, astronomer Paul Kalas took advantage of previously scheduled observing time on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii to image the blemish in the early morning hours of Monday, July 20.]]> Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2009 - Something slammed into Jupiter in the last few days, creating a dark bruise about the size of the Pacific Ocean. The bruise was noticed by an amateur astronomer on Sunday, July 19. UC Berkeley astronomer Paul Kalas took advantage of previously scheduled observing time on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii to image the blemish in the early morning hours of Monday, July 20.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2009 - Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.]]>