Questions about the exploration of the planet Jupiter.
The planet Jupiter is a gas giant, 5th planet from the sun.
It could also refer to the Jupiter booster used during the Apollo project to test technologies.
Questions tagged [jupiter]
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What are these features on this moon of Jupiter?
My Google background (supplied by "NASA Image Library") has a picture of Jupiter, along with one of its moons (Ganymede? Io?) in the foreground.
What are these two features, that look like a red dot and blue cloud?
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Why does Jupiter not appear flat at zero phase angle like the Lommel-Seeliger law says?
Jupiter appears to approximately follow Lambert's cosine law as it looks darker towards its limbs when viewed from the same direction as from where the Sun shines on it. Here an image from the article Hubble takes close-up portrait of Jupiter that…
akuzminykh
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Recent "HORIZON" juno mission on TV
Having just watched the excellent "HORIZON" documentary on Juno Mission, I am left with a small problem. In the programme they said it was likely that Jupiter was probably formed before any of the other planets, as it's main composition is gas, and…
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Does the planet Jupiter have a liquid surface?
Is the surface of Jupiter liquid, this is of particular interest because Jupiter has a gaseous atmosphere and liquid hydrogen?
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How far can a piece of spacecraft go, where the signal still reaches planet Earth?
Right now, we don't know the distance of which the spacecraft can go but at the moment, we can go to Jupiter, but the signal takes a long time to reach back to planet Earth.
