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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun, and is about ten times larger than Earth and smaller than the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a ...
Goldstone Observatory in 1963. The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex ( GDSCC ), commonly called the Goldstone Observatory, is a satellite ground station located in Fort Irwin [ 1] in the U.S. state of California. Operated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), its main purpose is to track and communicate with interplanetary space ...
The forerunner of the Deep Space Network was established in January 1958, when JPL, then under contract to the U.S. Army, deployed portable radio tracking stations in Nigeria, Singapore, and California to receive telemetry and plot the orbit of the Army-launched Explorer 1, the first successful U.S. satellite. [ 1]
The exploration of Jupiter has been conducted via close observations by automated spacecraft. It began with the arrival of Pioneer 10 into the Jovian system in 1973, and, as of 2023, has continued with eight further spacecraft missions in the vicinity of Jupiter. All of these missions were undertaken by the National Aeronautics and Space ...
The Gravity Science experiment and instrument set aboard the Juno Jupiter orbiter is designed to monitor Jupiter 's gravity. [1] [2] [3] It maps Jupiter's gravitational field, which will allow the interior of Jupiter to be better understood. [3] It uses special hardware on Juno, and also on Earth, [1] including the high-gain K-band and X-band ...
A schema of Jupiter's ring system showing the four main components. For simplicity, Metis and Adrastea are depicted as sharing their orbit. (In reality, Metis is very slightly closer to Jupiter.) The planet Jupiter has a system of faint planetary rings. The Jovian rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after ...
Impact events on Jupiter. Scar (dark area near Jupiter's limb) caused by a fragment of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. In modern times, numerous impact events on Jupiter have been observed, the most significant of which was the collision of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1994. Jupiter is the most massive planet in the Solar System and thus has a vast ...
The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the cavity created in the solar wind by Jupiter's magnetic field.Extending up to seven million kilometers in the Sun's direction and almost to the orbit of Saturn in the opposite direction, Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest and most powerful of any planetary magnetosphere in the Solar System, and by volume the largest known continuous structure in the Solar ...