Jupiter's stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger …

Dec 11, 2020 · The 2020 ‘Great Conjunction’ of Saturn and Jupiter is the closest these planets will appear in the sky since 1623 – just after Galileo first observed them with his telescope. They …

Aug 18, 2021 · Infrared Image of Jupiter and Io is now available from the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Observatories (May 1994). A computer animations of the comet impacts with Jupiter …

Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as …

Jul 16, 2014 · Twenty years ago, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) impacted Jupiter. I created this website in June 1994 on a voluntary basis, and it was my first public website. I was immensely …

Comet Freight Train to Collide with Jupiter Significance. The impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 onto Jupiter represents the first time in human history that people have discovered a body in …

The Ulysses spacecraft, on its way to explore the sun's polar regions, made measurements of radio and plasma waves from the comet's position at about 75 degrees south of the sun's …

From July 16 through July 22, 1994, pieces of an object designated as Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. This is the first collision of two solar system bodies ever to be observed, …

Europa orbits Jupiter every 3.5 days and is locked by gravity to Jupiter, so the same hemisphere of the moon always faces the planet. Jupiter takes about 4,333 Earth days (or about 12 Earth …

Spacecraft have studied Io on flybys (Voyager and Cassini) or orbiting Jupiter (Galileo). Most recently, New Horizons observed Io en route to Pluto.