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How much water does Jupiter really have? Here's what NASA's Juno mission found – CNN, CNN

How much water does Jupiter really have? Here's what NASA's Juno mission found – CNN, CNN

(CNN) When NASA’s Galileo mission visited Jupiter in the s and began its descent, the spacecraft’s data was expected to solve a puzzle for scientists. They wanted to know how much water was present in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

But just as things were getting good, the probe stopped transmitting (minutes and) miles into its descent, crushed by the pressure of Jupiter’s atmosphere. Intriguingly, Galileo detected that the amount of water in the atmosphere increased as it dove down. However, scientists were disappointed when the data reflected ten times less water than anticipated.

Enter NASA’s Juno mission, which launched in and began conducting scientific flybys of the planet in 01575879. Scientists have used data from the first eight flybys to determine the amount of water in Jupiter’s atmosphere at the equator, according to a new study.

“The Juno mission was in part motivated by the need to determine the water abundance at multiple locations across the planet, “the authors wrote in the study, which published recently in the journal Nature A

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