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TexasTowelie

(111,850 posts)
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:09 AM Mar 2017

Juno Spacecraft Is Rewriting What We Know About Jupiter

This is what Jupiter sounds like.

https://soundcloud.com/paulflahive/juno-waves-nasa-swri-jpl

These creepy noises are radio waves detected by the Juno spacecraft in August. While these screeching sounds shock the ears, what NASA is discovering from the spacecraft about Jupiter is Earth shattering.

"Or Jupiter shattering, I should say," says Scott Bolton, principle investigator for the Juno Mission and associate vice president of Research and Development for the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

He says Juno's launch five years ago launched a renewed interest in the giant planet with theories on what they would find when the spacecraft settled into orbit last July 4th.

"Maybe they'll see this? Maybe Juno will see that, but none of them have been as out of the box as what we are seeing," says Bolton

Read more: http://tpr.org/post/juno-spacecraft-rewriting-what-we-know-about-jupiter#stream/0

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Juno Spacecraft Is Rewriting What We Know About Jupiter (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
Excellent video. Thrilling. byronius Mar 2017 #1
wowie zowie! oldcynic Mar 2017 #2

oldcynic

(385 posts)
2. wowie zowie!
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:33 PM
Mar 2017

This is what makes wish I could live another hundred years! (Presuming we are not a dead clade walking)

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