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NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Asteroid Impact on Jupiter By Ryan Whitwam on February 25, 2021 at 7:29 am
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been puttering around the Jovian system for the last few years, taking images and measurements of the solar system’s largest planet. Juno reached the end of its pre-planned mission recently, but NASA renewed it for at least a few more years. There’s a lot to see on and around Jupiter, like the asteroid impact that Juno captured in 2020.
Jupiter is a massive planet with correspondingly massive gravitational pull. As such, it gets hit by a lot of space debris. However, Rohini Giles of the Southwest Research Institute says most of these small impacts are tiny and so short-lived that it’s uncommon to see them. Giles is the lead author of a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters that lays out the case for this rare imp
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This color-enhanced image shows a NASA Juno view of Jupiter in late 2020. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; image processing by Tanya Oleksuik
Researchers using NASA s Juno spacecraft to check out Jupiter s auroras say they got lucky last spring and caught a very bright meteoroid explosion in the process.
Such impacts aren t rare for Jupiter, since it s the largest planet in the solar system with some seriously powerful gravity to boot.
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A METEOR has been seen crashing into Jupiter by astronomers using NASA s Juno spacecraft as experts get a rare glimpse of a space rock exploding on the solar system s biggest planet.
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IMAGE: SwRI scientists studied the area imaged by Juno s UVS instrument on April 10, 2020, and determined that a large meteoroid had exploded in a bright fireball in Jupiter s upper atmosphere.. view more
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SAN ANTONIO Feb. 22, 2021 From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a bright flash above Jupiter s clouds last spring. The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) team studied the data and determined that they had captured a bolide, an extremely bright meteoroid explosion in the gas giant s upper atmosphere. Jupiter undergoes a huge number of impacts per year, much more than the Earth, so impacts themselves are not rare, said SwRI s Dr. Rohini Giles, lead author of a paper outlining these findings in