perijove tagged posts

1. This image combines an image taken with Hubble Space Telescope in the optical (taken in spring 2014) and observations of its auroras in the ultraviolet, taken in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Nichols (University of Leicester)
2. Juno spacecraft
3. Jupiter’s poles are covered in cyclones, some as big as the Earth

Astronomers publish predictions of planetary phenomena on Jupiter that informed spacecraft’s arrival. New observations about the extreme conditions of Jupiter’s weather and magnetic fields by University of Leicester astronomers have contributed to the revelations and insights coming from the first close passes of Jupiter by NASA’s Juno mission. Juno made its first scientific close-up, known as a ‘perijove’, on 27 August last year...