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Hunting for Fossils on Europa
If extraterrestrial life exists on Jupiter's moon Europa, instead of deploying probes to drill past its ice shell to look for aliens in the ocean below, one might just go fossil-hunting on the icy surface.
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Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left no Debris Cloud
Detailed observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter.
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Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteorid Smacked Jupiter
A mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye of an amateur astronomer in Australia, and soon, observatories around the world.
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Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System
Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern of returning data.
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Juno Taking Shape in Denver
Juno Taking Shape in Denver
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Helium Rain on Jupiter Explains Lack of Neon in Atmosphere
On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons. In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California, Berkeley, scientists, helium condenses into droplets and falls like rain.
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Jupiter's spot seen glowing
The observations reveal that the reddest colour of the Great Red Spot corresponds to a warm core within the otherwise cold storm system, and images show dark lanes at the edge of the storm where gases are descending into the deeper regions of the planet.
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Differences Between Ganymede and Callisto Explained
Differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different surfaces and interior states, according to research scientists
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Jupiter's Moons - 400 Years After Galileo
On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei's improvements to the telescope enabled humanity to see Jupiter's four largest moons for the first time.
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First Global Geological Map of Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of the solar system's largest moon -- and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, icy satellite.
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