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A NASA Probe Challenges Jupiter’s Size After 50 Years of Certainty

Jupiter may turn out to be a bit smaller and more flattened than scientists once believed. New data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft is revealing a subtly revised portrait of the gas giant.
Gizmodo

NASA Detects Most Powerful Eruption Ever on Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants. Reading time 3 minutes Jupiter’s moon Io is covered in hundreds of ...
Palm Beach Post

Bioscience company to build plant in Jupiter, bringing 100-200 jobs

A Maryland-based bioscience company will build a medical-device plant in Jupiter, Florida. This move is part of a larger effort to establish Jupiter as a major bioscience hub. The plant is planned to ...
Nature

Jupiter gets downsized — and squashed

The biggest planet in the Solar System just got smaller and flatter 1. Jupiter’s size and shape — it is a squashed sphere — were known only from data collected in the 1970s, when the Pioneer and ...
Greek Reporter

Jupiter Is Smaller and Flatter Than Believed, NASA’s Juno Data Reveals

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is slightly smaller and flatter than scientists have believed for decades, according to new research based on data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Using ...
IFLScience

Why You Can Never See A "Crescent Jupiter" Or A "Full Venus" From Earth

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Yahoo

Jupiter gets a makeover: NASA's Juno mission reveals Jupiter is smaller, flatter than scientists thought

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter may be the largest planet in the solar system, but new research shows it's not quite as big as scientists once believed, ...
WPTV-TV

Renovated US 1 Jupiter Bridge uses state-of-the-art technology to protect pedestrians

JUPITER, Fla. — The Jupiter U.S. 1 Bridge received major safety and technology upgrades after a $125 million reconstruction project that wrapped up in December following four years of construction.
USA Today

Is Jupiter smaller than we thought? NASA spacecraft makes new find

The measurements from NASA's Juno orbiter mark the first time that the size and shape of Jupiter has been evaluated in more than fifty years. NASA's Pioneer and Voyager missions made observations of ...
Interesting Engineering

Giant falls short: Juno finds Jupiter thinner at equator than previously thought

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape. That understanding is now being revised. Using fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, researchers at Israel’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Say That Jupiter—the Solar System’s Largest Planet—Might Be Slightly Smaller Than Previously Thought

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...
New York Post

The shocking revelation about Jupiter’s true appearance: ‘Textbooks will need to be updated’

Like a bad Tinder date, Jupiter is not as big as billed. Scholastic materials across academia will need an overhaul after scientists made the startling discovery that our solar system’s largest planet ...