Historical Discovery About Jupiter: Not as Round a Planet as We Thought

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Textbooks are no longer correct about what Jupiter is like. It has always appeared as one of the largest planets in the Solar System. Perfect for its roundness and characterized by its eternal clouds and storms. However, a new study reveals that it is somewhat smaller in size and a more flattened form than scientists had estimated for decades. The research is based on radio data collected by the Juno probe, which has allowed the measurements of …

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Measurements from NASA's Juno spacecraft may help rewrite the story of Jupiter over the past 50 years, say the researchers behind a new study.

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Members of the international scientific collaboration on the Juno mission have made a breakthrough in planetary science, determining Jupiter's geometric parameters with subkilometer accuracy for the first time. This was made possible by analyzing radio signals probing the planet's gaseous envelope. Using the radio occultation method—recording the refraction of radio waves as they pass between the spacecraft and Earth tangentially to the disk—the…