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Forbes
22-05-2025
- Science
- Forbes
NASA Juno's Jaw-Dropping New Jupiter Photos Are Some Of Its Last
Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno on May 8, 2025 during its 72nd perijove. NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back yet another batch of spectacular new images of Jupiter — including its moon Io — after its 72nd perijove (close flyby), with just four more to go until the end of its mission. The space agency's $1 billion spacecraft — the furthest solar-powered spacecraft in NASA's fleet — completed its latest close flyby on May 8, 2025, dipping close enough to image its cloud bands and turbulent storms in incredible detail. Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno on May 8, 2025 during its 72nd perijove. Juno launched from Earth in August 2011 and has been in orbit around Jupiter since July 2016. Juno has transmitted back thousands of raw images of the belts and zones within the giant planet's dense clouds that encircle it in the last almost nine years in the Jovian System. NASA's Deep Space Network, an array of three dish antennae worldwide, allows engineers to communicate with and receive data from the space agency's more than 30 robotic probes in the solar system and beyond, including Juno. The three dishes are placed 120° from each other in California in the U.S., Madrid in Spain and Canberra in Australia. Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno on May 8, 2025 during its 72nd perijove. The data sent back by Juno is processed from raw data not by a science team but by an army of specialist citizen scientists, including Kevin M. Gill, Jackie Branc, Brian Swift, Thomas Thomopoulos and Gerald Eichstädt. The raw images come from JunoCam, a two-megapixel camera that continues to capture images as it spins despite problems with overheating early in 2023. Juno also has a magnetometer, a gravity science system and a microwave radiometer. Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno on May 8, 2025 during its 72nd perijove. Juno's next close flyby of Jupiter, perijove 73, will occur on June 10, 2025. The Juno mission is scheduled to end with its perijove 76 on Sept. 15, 2025, when Juno will perform a 'death dive' into the gas giant to make sure it cannot one day accidentally crash into Europa, its moon suspected of containing the conditions for life to exist. Jupiter has four so-called Galilean moons — Europa, Callisto, Ganymede and Io — which were first discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610. Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno on May 8, 2025 during its 72nd perijove. With the Juno mission over, Jupiter will be quiet until 2030, when NASA's Europa Clipper, launched in November 2024, reaches the Jovian System to study Europa in a series of close flybys. The following year, in 2031, the European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft will begin its series of flybys, including Europa and Callisto, before eventually going into orbit around Ganymede for 18 months. Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.
ABC News
12-05-2025
- Business
- ABC News
FULL SHOW: the new frontbench, recession indicators + why fish keep washing up dead
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed his new frontbench. So who's in, who's out and what will they do? And here's why gold bars, makeup and memes have become recession indicators. Plus how citizen scientists track dead fish in South Australia. Listen now: 01:12 - Who's on the new frontbench? 05:27 - What happened with the Nationals leadership? 10:48 - Gold prospecting in outback Australia 15:27 - What are actual recession indicators? 21:45 - Explaining South Australia's dead fish problem Guests: Shalailah Medhora, political reporter, triple j hack Shalailah Medhora, political reporter, triple j hack Angel Zhong, finance professor, RMIT Angel Zhong, finance professor, RMIT Brad Martin, South Australia project manager, Ozfish Get the whole story from Hack:
