: of, relating to, or characteristic of the god or planet Jupiter
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Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.—Big Think, 24 June 2024 His Voyagers would ultimately discover 48 of them, orbiting the four gas giants—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—as well as previously unknown rings or partial rings around Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, and volcanoes on the Jovian moon Io.—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 12 June 2024 Scientists have detected contaminants all the way on Europa, another Jovian moon that’s hundreds of thousands of miles from Io.—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024 With as much time flying around the Jovian system as a two-term president, Juno continues to pull back the curtain on the mysteries that remain on the gassy, gritty bodies about 484 million miles from Earth.—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2024 The images also call attention to our advancing knowledge of the Jovian system, and the solar system as a whole, recalling a time when Io was mistakenly seen as an inactive, idle place.—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024 The spacecraft is slated to start its 1.6-billion-mile trek from Earth to the Jovian system this October.—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024 This estimate was lower than those from previous studies, which had found that the Jovian moon was making as much as 2,000 pounds of oxygen per second.—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024 Even that, however, means that Europa Clipper will not arrive in the Jovian system until April 2030.—TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
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