The gas giants of our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — together make up ... planets rotate in the same direction as the moons close to their equator (such as the huge ...

Related: Gas giants: Jovian planets of our solar system and beyond ... while Pioneer 11 provided data on the Great Red Spot and close-up pictures of Jupiter's polar regions. Voyagers 1 and 2 ...

The planets divide neatly into two broad categories: terrestrial and jovian. The terrestrial planets ... of the terrestrial worlds. It lies so close to the Sun that observations from Earth reveal ...

up in January 2002. Saturday's flyby provided NASA with many raw images, which it released to citizen scientists for post-processing. Juno's close pass allowed for outstanding high-resolution ...

But sophisticated, close-up study of the giant planet began with the twin flybys of NASA’s Voyagers in 1979. Voyager 1 and 2 increased our jovian knowledge immensely. They mapped the planet ...

With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like ... surface of a planet make up what is known as an atmosphere.

A Nature Communications paper published on May 23, found that lightning processes on the gas planet ... are very close to these observed on the Earth, but the distribution of Jovian lightning ...

it will arrive in the Jovian system and get to work. The spacecraft will focus on three of Jupiter’s largest moons: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa and their interplay with the planet.