Jupiter, NASA and aurora
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Space.com on MSNNASA's Europa Clipper probe snaps ghostly thermal portrait of Mars en route to JupiterNASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait of Mars — a cosmic photo op that helped scientists fine-tune an instrument destined to investigate whether Europa can support life as we know it.
The scientists also took images of Jupiter’s auroras with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope at the same time Webb made its observations, capturing them in ultraviolet light. They uncovered a strange discrepancy between the two sets of data, the brightest light observed by Webb had no real counterpart in the Hubble images.
NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in our solar system combined
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Space.com on MSNCyclones on Jupiter and a moon with flowing magma: NASA Juno probe's latest discoveries are awesomeA group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals mega auroras on Jupiter, hundreds of times brighter than Earth's, triggered by solar storms.