The US Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA launched the 12-year Lucy space mission today, in which the space probe traveled to Jupiter to study Trojan asteroids. The launch took place today, October 16, 2021, using an Atlas V launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida at 05:34 EST or 12:34 Moscow […]
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The first generation of photos of Ganymede – Jupiter’s giant icy moon
Interplanetary automatic station Juno, which is exploring the Jupiter system, sent the first two images of Ganymede – the largest satellite not only of its planet, but also in the entire solar system. Photos are posted on the mission subsite on the NASA portal. The first flight of the probe over Ganymede took place […]
Juno will fly up to Jupiter’s largest moon for the first time in 20 years
The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA told interesting news about the nearest plans of the automatic interplanetary station Juno (Juno) near Jupiter. Ganymede maps based on Voyager 1 and 2 data and Galileo No probe has received a good view of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, since 2000, when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft flew past it. […]
A Probe Near Jupiter Showed A Grandiose Light Storm In The Atmosphere Of A Gas Giant: Video
Interplanetary automatic station Juno, which is in orbit of Jupiter, has shed light on the origin of polar “light shows” in the atmosphere of the gas giant due to the ultraviolet spectrograph on board. This was reported by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with reference to a publication in the AGU Advances magazine. The so-called […]
Jupiter’s probe extended its life: it will fly to other objects in the system of the gas giant
The US Aerospace Administration has extended the research mission of the interplanetary unmanned station Juno until September 2025 – or until the time when the device finally “dies” due to the strongest radiation in the Jupiter region. This was reported by the press service of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Launched in 2011, Juno […]