New measurements point out that Jupiter is barely smaller and extra flattened than beforehand believed. In response to a examine, researchers utilizing information from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have offered essentially the most exact dimensions of the gasoline large so far. The up to date measurements on the 1-bar strain stage present a polar radius of 66,842 km and an equatorial radius of 71,488 km, that are roughly 12 km and 4 km smaller, respectively, than earlier estimates based mostly on the Nineteen Seventies Pioneer and Voyager missions.
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