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Atlanta, GA | Posted: May 25, 2017
Jason Maderer
National Media Relations
maderer@gatech.edu
404-660-2926
Summary Sentence:
The Juno Science Team reveals its first findings since the spacecraft arrived at Jupiter last July.
Full Summary:
The Juno Science Team, which includes Georgia Tech Professor Paul Steffes, has published its first observations of Jupiter. In a paper that now appears in the journal Science, the researchers describe a chaotic scene of ammonia, cyclones, and bands of storms that extend far deeper beneath the planet’s clouds than previously thought.
Juno image of Jupiter
Juno and JupiterThe Juno Science Team, which includes Georgia Tech Professor Paul Steffes, has published its first observations of Jupiter. In a paper that now appears in the journal Science, the researchers describe a chaotic scene of ammonia, cyclones and bands of storms that extend far deeper beneath the planet’s clouds than previously thought.
Juno has been circling Jupiter since entering its orbit on July 4, 2016, and has completed six passes of the planet so far. The paper outlines findings from Juno’s first pole-to-pole orbit on August 27, when the basketball court-sized spacecraft skimmed within nearly 2,000 miles of Jupiter’s equatorial cloud tops.
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