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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 ...
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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 ...
New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.
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 ...
Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...
An international team of researchers using data from NASA’s Juno mission has redefined the physical dimensions of the gas ...
New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins. Recently, researchers uncovered groundbreaking details that shed fresh ...
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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.
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