First of all, apologies for being a day late with this post. Secondly, just look at these amazing pictures! These images are amongst those sent back from the Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter. Every 50 days or so the craft swoops in low and goes from pole to pole giving us close up views of… Read More Juno Delivers The Goods
Two astronomical updates for you today; one good, one bad. Let’s start with the bad news. Two faulty helium valves on the Juno spacecraft mean that it is unlikely that it will be able to make the super close orbits that had been intended. The plan was that Juno’s elliptical orbit would be ever curtailed… Read More Jupiter Update: Good News and Bad News
The first time I saw the image below I was quickly flicking through my Twitter feed without paying too much attention. I assumed it was an artists impression of some new exoplanet or some such; beautiful but not real and so I moved on. It was a few days later when I saw the image… Read More Jupiter: As You Have Never Seen Her Before
Last week the Juno spacecraft made its first close pass of Jupiter. Passing within just 2500 miles of the surface the craft was able to take unprecedented pictures of the gas giant. In the image below you can see the north pole of Jupiter. The thing that most stands out for me is that it… Read More Juno Reveals Jupiter
As many of you are probably aware the Juno spacecraft is just about to enter orbit around Jupiter. I’m going to hold off from doing a full post on it for now as it is going to take several months for its orbit to settle down and start making the regular low altitude flybys that… Read More Juno Arrives
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