News About Jupiter 18-JUL-08 en-us Laurel MD (SPX) May 23, 2008 - Using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes at Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system's largest and newest storms - Jupiter's Little Red Spot - has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet.]]> ]]> Baltimore MD (SPX) May 23, 2008 - In what's beginning to look like a case of planetary measles, a third red spot has appeared alongside its cousins-the Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr.-in the turbulent Jovian atmosphere.]]> Houston TX (SPX) May 19, 2008 - Global mapping of unusual large circular features on the ice-covered ocean world of Europa has revealed that Jupiter's curious icy moon is even more unstable than previously thought.]]> College Park MD (SPX) May 02, 2008 - Scientists from the University of Maryland and the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies in Jupiter's gossamer rings. They report that a faint extension of the outermost ring beyond the orbit of Jupiter's moon Thebe, and other observed deviations from an accepted model of ring formation, result from the interplay of shadow and sunlight on dust particles that make up the rings.]]> ]]> Liege, Belgium (SPX) Mar 18, 2008 - Scientists have observed unexpected luminous spots on Jupiter caused by its moon Io. Besides displaying the most spectacular volcanic activity in the solar system, Io causes auroras on its mother planet that are similar to the Northern Lights on Earth. The auroral emissions linked to the volcanic moon are called the Io footprint.]]> Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 29, 2008 - This New Horizons image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was taken at 13:05 Universal Time during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby on February 28, 2007. It shows the reddish color of the deposits from the giant volcanic eruption at the volcano Tvashtar, near the top of the sunlit crescent, as well as the bluish plume itself and the orange glow of the hot lava at its source.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2008 - Wake up before dawn on an arctic-cold February morning .... and go outside? This Friday you'll be glad you did. The two brightest planets in the Solar System, Venus and Jupiter, are converging for a spectacular close encounter. The best time to look: Friday morning, February 1st. Venus and Jupiter will be so close together, you can hide them behind the tip of your index finger held at arm's length.]]> ]]> Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2008 - As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter likes to supersize its stormy weather. Two giant storms erupted from a jet stream blowing at 370 miles per hour on Jupiter in March, 2007. The storms exploded in size, growing from 250 miles across to more than 1,245 miles across in less than a day. Ice plumes from the storms towered 20 miles above surrounding cloud tops. The storms disturbed the jet and formed in their wake swirling red clouds that spread around the planet.]]> Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 29, 2008 - A University of Arizona scientist, observing Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope last May, took some of the best images of two unusual giant storms that erupted from the planet last spring. Erich Karkoschka of the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is co-author on a scientific paper being published about Jupiter's giant storms in the Jan. 24 issue of the journal Nature.]]> Usurbil, Basque Country (SPX) Jan 25, 2008 - At the end of March 2007, scientists all over the world observed with surprise and awe a rare change in the atmosphere of Jupiter. A giant perturbation occurred amongst its clouds and two extremely bright storms erupted in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, where its most intense jet stream - reaching speeds of 600 kilometers per hour - resides.]]> ]]> ]]> Moscow (AFP) Jan 7, 2008 - Russia plans to participate in a European mission to investigate Jupiter's moon Europa and search for simple life forms, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, quoting a senior researcher.]]> St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 14, 2007 - Jupiter's moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered ocean and determine its potential for harboring life. "We've learned a lot about Europa in the past few years," says William McKinnon, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.]]> Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 13, 2007 - Jupiter is known as many things: king of the planets, an impressive gas giant, defender of the inner solar system. This last notion comes from the idea that Jupiter is so massive that its gravitational influence deflects objects like comets, which, as they spiral toward the Sun, could potentially hit inner planets such as the Earth.]]> Advertise in this newsletter or website click for advertising kit - PDF File

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