NASA’s Juno mission reveals Jupiter is smaller and more 'squashed' than previously estimated

NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...

NASA's Juno finds Jupiter is a tiny bit smaller than previously thought

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...
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Jupiter gets a makeover: NASA's Juno mission reveals Jupiter is smaller, flatter than scientists thought

Jupiter may be the largest planet in the solar system, but new research shows it's not quite as big as scientists once ...

Scientists discover Jupiter is smaller than previously thought: “The textbooks will need updating”

New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...
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Jupiter smaller? Textbooks will need updating

The planet Jupiter, a gas giant and the king of our Solar System, has just been measured as slightly smaller than what is ...
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Farewell to the Jupiter of textbooks—the Juno probe reveals a smaller, flatter planet—and NASA prepares for changes

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...

Why Scientists Are Still Figuring Out the Size and Shape of Jupiter

The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about 12 km smaller along the poles, and about 4 km smaller at the equator, than ...

Is Jupiter smaller than we thought? NASA spacecraft makes new find

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.
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Jupiter Is Smaller and Flatter Than Believed, NASA’s Juno Data Reveals

New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.
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Sky Shorts: Juno's mission to Jupiter to end in September

NASA’s Juno mission launched Aug. 5, 2011, and traveled 1.7 billion miles on a five-year journey to the king of the planets, Jupiter. Juno arrived in July 2016 with mission objective of solving ...
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NASA's Juno spacecraft spots the largest volcanic eruption ever seen on Jupiter's moon Io

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." ...
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NASA spacecraft Juno on a mission to map, explore Jupiter

PASADENA, Calif. -- Launched by NASA in August 2011, the spacecraft Juno is set to arrive at Jupiter on July 4. Currently cartwheeling through space, once Juno gets close enough to Jupiter, it will ...