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2-MIN READ In a First, NASA Craft Detects FM Signals Coming from Jupiters Biggest Moon Ganymede File photo of Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. (Credit: REUTERS) The FM radio signals were picked up by a spacecraft called Juno. It was orbiting the gas giant when it detected the waves from Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. FOLLOW US ON: There are FM radio signals coming from one of Jupiter’s moon. As we generally relate FM to radio, which in turn we conn...

 E-Mail SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 13, 2021 -- NASA has extended the Juno mission to explore Jupiter through September 2025, expanding the science goals to include the overall Jovian system, made up of the planet and its rings and moons. In addition to continuing to explore our Solar Systems largest planet, NASAs planetary orbiter will rendezvous with three of the most intriguing Jovian moons. "Since its first orbit in 2016, Juno has delivered one revelation after another about the inner workings of...

  Pasadena, CA – Twenty-five years ago, NASA sent history’s first probe into the atmosphere of the solar system’s largest planet. But the information returned by the Galileo probe during its descent into Jupiter caused head-scratching: The atmosphere it was plunging into was much denser and hotter than scientists expected. New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft suggests that these “hot spots” are much wider and deeper than anticipated. The findings on Jupiter’s hot spots, along wit...