Galileo’s Probe Discovered a Mystery at Jupiter, Juno Finally Helped Solve it

Galileo’s Probe Discovered a Mystery at Jupiter, Juno Finally Helped Solve it
By Paul M. Sutter

In 1995, NASA’s Galileo mission dropped a probe into the atmosphere of Jupiter and found it to be far drier than expected. In 2020, NASA’s follow-up mission Juno explained the mystery: it involves mushballs. When NASA’s Galileo probe reported that the upper reaches of Jupiter’s atmosphere just north of its equator were drier than expected, …

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