The outcomes help the idea that the throughout formation of our photo voltaic system, water-ice materials might have been the supply of the heavy aspect enrichment (chemical components heavier than hydrogen and helium that have been accreted by Jupiter) through the gasoline large’s formation and/or evolution. The formation of Jupiter stays puzzling, as a result of Juno outcomes on the core of the gasoline large recommend a really low water abundance — a thriller that scientists are nonetheless attempting to type out.
Information through the the rest of Juno’s prolonged mission might assist, each by enabling scientists to match Jupiter’s water abundance close to the polar areas to the equatorial area and by shedding extra gentle on the construction of the planet’s dilute core.
Throughout Juno’s most up-to-date flyby of Io, on April 9, the spacecraft got here inside about 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometers) of the moon’s floor. It can execute its 61st flyby of Jupiter on Could 12.
Extra Concerning the Mission
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Analysis Institute in San Antonio. Juno is a part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Area Flight Heart in Huntsville, Alabama, for the company’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Italian Area Company (ASI) funded the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper. Lockheed Martin Area in Denver constructed and operates the spacecraft.
Extra details about Juno is accessible at:
https://www.nasa.gov/juno
