Jupiter shows its true stripes: NASA’s Juno mission

JUPITER STRIPES For: Mains Topics covered: About Jupiter’s Stripe News Flash New research shows that Jupiter’s stripes, caused by the planet’s zonal winds (alternating east-west jet streams), only descend to 3,000 kilometers in the atmosphere. The team looked to the NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter that revealed how far zonal winds around Jupiter descend — to a depth about 4 percent of Jupiter’s radius. Why Jupiter’s stripes are only skin deep? Magnetic fields…

Ploonet – A moon that becomes a planet

Ploonet Ploonet is the new word the scientific community has come up with to describe a moon that becomes a planet. A moon can become a planet if it leaves the orbit of its parent planet and takes up residence in a stable orbit around its star. At this point, this orbiting rock is neither a moon nor a planet, hence the term, ploonet. Our moon might soon desert us and become a ploonet…

Jupiter shows its true stripes: NASA’s Juno mission

Ploonet – A moon that becomes a planet

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