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NASA Jupiter Probe Makes 4th Flyby of Giant Planet
Space.com ^ | 2 Feb, 2017 | Mike Wall

Posted on 02/02/2017 9:31:05 PM PST by MtnClimber

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NASA's Juno spacecraft has flown by Jupiter for the fourth time.

Juno skimmed about 2,670 miles (4,300 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops at 7:57 a.m. EST (1257 GMT) this morning (Feb. 2), zooming by at 129,000 mph (208,000 km/h) relative to the giant planet, NASA officials said.

All eight of Juno's science instruments were on and collecting data during the flyby if all went according to plan, they added.

"Revelations include that Jupiter's magnetic fields and aurora are bigger and more powerful than originally thought and that the belts and zones that give the gas giant's cloud top its distinctive look extend deep into the planet's interior," NASA officials wrote in a statement today. "Peer-reviewed papers with more in-depth science results from Juno's first three flybys are expected to be published within the next few months."

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: jupiter; nasa

1 posted on 02/02/2017 9:31:05 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

People of Jupiter should be getting really agitated about now.


2 posted on 02/02/2017 9:32:19 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

Seems data is just being evaluated. Big question: Why are the planet compositions so different from each other and from the sun.


3 posted on 02/02/2017 9:32:42 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Why are the planet compositions so different from each other and from the sun.

For me, that is a question that would require extensive research and endless pondering.

4 posted on 02/02/2017 9:40:36 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MtnClimber
I wonder if they'll take photos of the flag our astronauts planted on the "surface" of Jupiter decades ago?

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 photo Sheila Jackson Lee 01_zpsaxsb1ucw.jpg
Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
From Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee

5 posted on 02/02/2017 9:41:57 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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Didn’t NASA plant her photo on Uranus to frighten off possible space alien invaders?


6 posted on 02/02/2017 9:47:50 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I think read somewhere that that planet was named after her.


7 posted on 02/02/2017 9:54:02 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: DannyTN

Wait until Cher Bono gets there. Then they will be very po’d.


8 posted on 02/02/2017 9:58:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ETL
On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news

That is racist. It's like saying Hussein Obama didn't know what Muslim terrorism is.


9 posted on 02/02/2017 10:09:46 PM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Obama is doing)
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"Revelations include that Jupiter's magnetic fields and aurora are bigger and more powerful than originally thought and that the belts and zones that give the gas giant's cloud top its distinctive look extend deep into the planet's interior," NASA officials wrote in a statement today.

My life will never be the same.

10 posted on 02/02/2017 10:28:06 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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The local Dwellers were not particularly pleased, but mostly bored when the probe first appeared above their cloud tops.

Many at first believed the probe was some sort of new toy for the local war game competition. However, when it failed to so much as fire a small nuke, they got bored and went back to ignoring it.

Lucky us.


11 posted on 02/03/2017 4:09:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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