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Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb

By |2025-04-02T09:09:07-04:00April 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's main ring was discovered in 1979 by NASA's passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but its origin was then a mystery. Data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, however, confirmed the hypothesis that this ring was created by meteoroid impacts on [...]

Saturn in Infrared from Cassini

By |2025-02-23T08:09:07-05:00February 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Saturn looks slightly different in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn's North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon's existence was not [...]

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