Washington: NASA’s Juno mission will next week mark the halfway point in data collection by completing the 16th science pass of Jupiter. Launched on August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, the spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. “On December 21, at 11:49:48 a.m. EST the Juno spacecraft[Read More…]
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Jupiter is not just the biggest planet in the solar system; its the oldest too!
In a recent discovery, researchers have found out that Jupiter is the oldest planet in the universe, besides being the biggest. Researcher, Thomas S. Kruijer, says “this is the first time that we can say something about Jupiter based on measurements done in the lab.” Similar work was done on[Read More…]