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The Europa Clipper Mission

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Ian Vasquez

Artist’s concept of Europa Clipper orbiting Europa. On October 14th, 2024 the Europa Clipper Mission was launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy Rocket. It is now on a 6 year journey of 1.8 billion miles to circle the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. The Europa Clipper blasts into space on a […] Continue reading →

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Giant Planets

Posted on November 17, 2024 by jasonljohnson465

Image from NASA In our Solar System, the giant planets are the outer four of the eight planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In other words, they are the Jovian planets. However, these planets are split into two categories of giant planets: gas giant and ice giant. While all four of the planets are gaseous […] Continue reading →

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The ‘Grand Tack’ Hypothesis

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Alekzander Waller

The Grand Tack hypothesis theorizes that Jupiter formed much farther out from the sun than it currently is, migrated inwards quite a bit due to interactions with the early solar nebula, and then back out a little ways (imitating a tack, the maneuver where a sailboat changes direction). Of all of the fascinating facts and […] Continue reading →

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Would humans survive without Jupiter?

Posted on April 28, 2024 by katie shapiro

“Our solar system is a cosmic dance of planets, moving together in perfect harmony.”-Unknown At the beginning of this course I understood that the solar system had planets and other objects, such as asteroids and comets, but I believed that they all acted independently of each other, with the exception of gravity. In other words, […] Continue reading →

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Historical Astronomers in Context— Galileo

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Seth Creech

Picture of Galileo Galileo (February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642) made major strides in the argument for heliocentrism, observing sunspots and the phases of Venus, two pieces of information that seemed to point to the imperfection of the celestial world and that the Sun was the gravitational center of the Solar System about which […] Continue reading →

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Geological Activity Far out in the Solar System

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Tejas Mahesh

Based upon the formation and evolution of the rocky terrestrial planets, size of the planet results in whether the planet is geologically active or dead. However, the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune are smaller in size than Earth, yet are geologically active. How come? It turns out that the magma volcanic activity of the […] Continue reading →

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The Differences Between our Jovian Planets – Blog #6 – Cameron Klein

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Cameron Klein

As I read through section 11.1 in our textbook, I realized that I did not comprehend as much as I would have liked about the differences between our Jovian planets. Therefore, I feel as though doing more research about them and writing this blog post will serve as an amazing study tool! This blog post […] Continue reading →

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Blog 5: WHAT MAKES A METAL?

Posted on April 6, 2024 by matthewastro

Jupiter’s magnetosphere is generated thanks to a “metallic” layer of hydrogen around its core that is electrically conductive. Saturn also has “metallic,” electrically conductive hydrogen around its core, which enables it to have a magnetosphere as well. But the quotation marks? The answer is that metallic hydrogen isn’t a metal, in the traditional sense. First, […] Continue reading →

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Historical Astronomers in Context

Posted on February 6, 2024 by The Cosmic Traveler

by me Galileo Galilei: Born on February 15, 1564, Died on January 8, 1642 Two major historical events during Galileo’s lifetime: A famous historical figure during Galileo’s lifetime:  Queen Elizabeth I: Born on September 7, 1533, Died on March 24, 1603. Queen Elizabeth I established a secure Church of England and laid out a compromise […] Continue reading →

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JUICE Explorer

Posted on April 29, 2023 by alicebyrnes

As discussed briefly in class, the European Space Agency (ESA) just successfully launched the Juice (formerly JUICE: JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) mission on April 14th! I had no idea this mission even existed before it was mentioned, so I decided to explore it further. The goal of this mission is focused on Jupiter’s moons. While […] Continue reading →

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