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  2. Galileo project - Wikipedia

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    Most engineers regarded this solution as inelegant and planetary scientists at JPL disliked it because it meant that the mission would take months or even years longer to reach Jupiter. [22] [21] Longer travel times meant that the spacecraft's components would age and possibly fail, and the onboard power supply and propellant would be depleted ...

  3. List of Jupiter events - Wikipedia

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    Hubble image of the scar taken on 23 July 2009 during the 2009 Jupiter impact event, showing a blemish of about 8,000 kilometres long. [1] In recorded history, the planet Jupiter has experienced impact events and has been probed and photographed by several spacecraft.

  4. Exploration of Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    Juno is also searching for clues about how Jupiter formed, including whether the planet has a rocky core, the amount of water present within the deep atmosphere, and how the mass is distributed within the planet. Juno also studies Jupiter's deep winds, [58] [59] which can reach speeds of 600 km/h. [60] [61]

  5. Mars and Jupiter as close in night sky as they'll be until 2033

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    The two planets will reach their minimum separation — one-third of 1 degree or about one-third the width of the moon — during daylight hours Wednesday in most of the Americas, Europe and Africa.

  6. Grand tack hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter might have shaped the Solar System on its grand tack. In planetary astronomy, the grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at a distance of 3.5 AU from the Sun, then migrated inward to 1.5 AU, before reversing course due to capturing Saturn in an orbital resonance, eventually halting near its current orbit at 5.2 AU.

  7. Jupiter Will Look Bigger and Brighter Than Usual This ... - AOL

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    This weekend, the night sky will offer another spectacular sight when Jupiter reaches opposition and looks the brightest it has all year. Jupiter will reach opposition on Saturday, December 7. The ...

  8. Impact events on Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    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 sphere of gravitational influence, the region of space where an asteroid capture can take place under favorable ...

  9. Nasa’s ‘Message in a Bottle’ will send your name into space

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    The mission is set to launch in October 2024, reaching Jupiter orbit 2.9 kilometres (1.8 billion miles) away in 2030. It will aim to investigate whether the ocean beneath the icy crust of Europa ...