NASA Announces Five Investigations For Future Missions Just about when things seemed to get quiet on the space exploration front, NASA announced five new studies that could result in one or perhaps two new missions for planetary studies. If all goes well, these could even happen as early as 2020. DAVINCI would look at …
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Interesting facts about the gas giant Jupiter With all the discussions going on about Pluto recently, there are still things about Jupiter out there that many folks may not know. That is the subject of the article below. That it is a gas giant along with Saturn, or that it is mostly composed of …
Two opposing jet streams set up the Jupiter storm The cover photo says it all – what a swirling mystery Jupiter’s Great Red Spot continues to be for scientists. Not that Jupiter itself isn’t a bit strange. It really has no solid ground … composed of mostly liquid Helium at it’s core and varying states …