Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice ...

The findings help clarify how Jupiter's cloud layers and atmospheric dynamics work. The discovery was made by Dr. Steven Hill, an amateur astronomer based in Colorado. He recently showed that ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

It is due to reach Jupiter in July 2031 ... These probes, which will characterize plasma and measure radio emissions, are made of titanium grade 5 alloy and have spherical shapes, designed ...