Juno Probe To Explore Jupiter

May 20, 2011 By Deepa Gopal
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Rap June 4, 2011 - 3:40pm

I wonder if figuring out whether Jupiter and the Sun are made out of the same materials has to do with the theory that Jupiter and the Sun were a sort of partly formed binary star system. Jupiter would have been the other sun, except it wasn't big enough to begin the nuclear fusion necessary to make light.

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Arjun May 29, 2011 - 11:37am

I thought they have already confirmed Jupiter as having a rocky core. From what I now, Jupiter is made up of four layers- Hydrogen and Helium gas as the outside-most layer, Liquid Hydrogen and Helium, Liquid ices and methane, and at the center, a dense, rocky core. But science is always being rewritten.

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Arjun May 29, 2011 - 11:34am

Juno exploring Jupiter? See a connection?

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ashleym May 28, 2011 - 5:24am

Hopefully while i'm living somebody will find a way to go on a planet!

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kenn May 26, 2011 - 1:55pm
I wish I could go on a planet!
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damonc May 26, 2011 - 8:58am

they are lucky they didnt get sucked in to the atmosphere

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evanp May 26, 2011 - 8:53am
I never knew they were made of the same gases!
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rebeccac May 25, 2011 - 3:59pm

If I were the people who were setting up this thing I would be really nervous. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.