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Juno Post-Arrival News Conference

5 July 2016 Astronomy Now

Juno programme officials hold a news conference at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory following the successful orbital insertion of the space probe around the gas giant Jupiter.

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Early risers will already be aware that there’s currently a lot of planetary activity in the morning sky, but at dawn in Western Europe on Monday, 2 April, Mars and Saturn will be just 1¼ degrees apart and seen in the same field of view of telescopes at 30x magnification. The waning Moon is close by on the mornings of 7 & 8 April too.

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Europa’s flexing icy crust might make more heat than scientists thought

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As it orbits Jupiter, the icy surface of Europa heaves and falls with the changing pull of its parent planet’s gravity, creating enough heat to likely support a global ocean beneath the Jovian moon’s solid shell. Experiments by geoscientists suggest that this process, called tidal dissipation, could create far more heat in Europa’s ice than scientists had previously assumed.

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Scientists pinpoint Saturn with exquisite accuracy

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Researchers have paired the continent-wide Very Large Baseline Array radio telescope system with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to determine the position of Saturn and its moons to within two miles — at a range of nearly a billion miles.

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News Headlines

  • See all the planets in January
    16 January 2023
  • Frank Drake, SETI pioneer, 1930–2022
    3 September 2022
  • Webb images of Jupiter show auroras, rings, moons
    24 August 2022
  • Webb: Stellar nursery in Carina
    12 July 2022
  • Webb: a ringside seat to galactic mergers and interactions
    12 July 2022
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