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Jupiter Is Not The Size And Shape We've Long Thought It Was
The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just got more precise, and it turns out there's slightly less of the giant than ...
Morning Overview on MSN
Jupiter may be smaller than we thought, new discovery stuns scientists
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has forced planetary scientists to reconsider something they thought was settled: how big Jupiter ...
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN
Giant falls short: Juno finds Jupiter thinner at equator than previously thought
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
The Juno spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter has a suite of science instruments which will investigate the existence of a possible solid planetary core, map Jupiter’s intense magnetic field, measure the ...
What If on MSN
What would happen if the sun ate Jupiter
In order for Jupiter to crash into the Sun, something truly extraordinary would need to happen. Its orbit would need to be ...
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