Jupiter size refined by new radio mapping
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
For more than half a century, planetary scientists relied on a handful of spacecraft flybys to pin down Jupiter's size and shape. Now, an international team led by the Weizmann Institute of Science has used a trove of new radio data from NASA's Juno mission to redraw the gas giant with unprecedented precision. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, replaces six measurements from NASA's
For more than half a century, planetary scientists relied on a handful of spacecraft flybys to pin down Jupiter's size and shape. Now, an international team led by the Weizmann Institute of Science has used a trove of new radio data from NASA's Juno mission to redraw the gas giant with unprecedented precision. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, replaces six measurements from NASA's