A year at Jupiter: Juno has revealed the giant of the Solar System

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran

Scientists get as excited as anyone about seeing new pictures of the mysterious worlds that populate our vast Solar System—from Mercury’s day-and-night terminator to Pluto’s icy mountains. For far longer than most people, astronomers imagined what these diverse planets, dwarf planets, and moons must look like from up close.

It’s true that planetary scientists such as Fran Bagenal are more interested in data than anything else, and this often goes far beyond pixels. But as an astronomer who has been involved with many of NASA’s Solar System probes, from Voyager to New Horizons and Juno, Bagenal fully appreciates the value of images of capturing the public imagination.

Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments

Ars Technica

Post Author: martin

Martin is an enthusiastic programmer, a webdeveloper and a young entrepreneur. He is intereted into computers for a long time. In the age of 10 he has programmed his first website and since then he has been working on web technologies until now. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of BriefNews.eu and PCHealthBoost.info Online Magazines. His colleagues appreciate him as a passionate workhorse, a fan of new technologies, an eternal optimist and a dreamer, but especially the soul of the team for whom he can do anything in the world.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.