: of, relating to, or characteristic of the god or planet Jupiter
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Along the way, Voyager 1 found a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons as well as five new moons orbiting Saturn.
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
The spacecraft, after performing flybys of Mars and Earth, will enter orbit around Jupiter in 2030 and perform dozens of close flybys of Europa, the Jovian moon that has a subsurface ocean that is potentially habitable.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
Among the nearly 100 Jovian moons that encircle the gas giant, JUICE’s primary study subject is none other than Ganymede, a lunar behemoth that hosts its own magnetic field—the only moon with that distinction—and boasts a complex core.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
To delay or not to delay NASA's update is silent on whether the spacecraft could still make its approximately three-week launch window this year, which gets Clipper to the Jovian system in 2030.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 July 2024
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
The spacecraft, after performing flybys of Mars and Earth, will enter orbit around Jupiter in 2030 and perform dozens of close flybys of Europa, the Jovian moon that has a subsurface ocean that is potentially habitable.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
Among the nearly 100 Jovian moons that encircle the gas giant, JUICE’s primary study subject is none other than Ganymede, a lunar behemoth that hosts its own magnetic field—the only moon with that distinction—and boasts a complex core.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
To delay or not to delay NASA's update is silent on whether the spacecraft could still make its approximately three-week launch window this year, which gets Clipper to the Jovian system in 2030.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 July 2024
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