During the Great Conjunction event in which Jupiter and Saturn appeared closer to each other in the sky than they have for hundreds of years, photographer Jason De Freitas captured a photo showing the ISS zipping between the two planets. PetaPixel reports: While planning to photograph the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, De Freitas realized that he could also include the…
Tag: Jupiter’s Moons
Jupiter’s moons could be warming each other
Jupiter’s moons are hot. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-jupiter-moons.html…
Planet Ceres Is An ‘Ocean World’ With Sea Water Beneath Surface, Mission Finds
The dwarf planet Ceres — long believed to be a barren space rock — is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, the results of a major exploration mission showed on Monday. The Guardian reports: Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has its own gravity, enabling the Nasa Dawn…