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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 10:49:35
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Jove of Olympus, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. 14
🏛️ #Jupiter, 1s…

Roman marble statue of Jupiter called the Marbury Hall Zeus. Portrayed as a mature bearded man, Zeus sits enthroned in his role as king of the gods. Originally he would have held his attributes: a scepter and a thunderbolt. The colossal god towers over his mortal observers. Documented in the 1570s at Tivoli near Rome, the statue once decorated the gardens of the Villa d'Este. It is named for having been in the collection at Marbury Hall in England.

Although it was carved in a Roman workshop in…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-07 00:48:47

UV-dark polar ovals on #Jupiter as tracers of magnetosphere–atmosphere connections: de.slideshare.net/slideshow/uv or researchportal.northumbria.ac. (sorry, found these OA versions only now) -> Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter’s Poles: vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/m - unusual magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon haze.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-06 18:18:47

The super-successful #Juno #Jupiter orbiter may already be switched off, but #NASA won't say: space.com/space-exploration/mi - the agency has extended Juno's mission multiple times, most recently in 2021, guaranteeing operations through Sept. 30, 2025; that date has now passed, and with the U.S. government shut down, there is no word yet on whether Juno will come out alive on the other side.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-30 15:57:50

Nonuniform water distribution in Jupiter’s midlatitudes - influence of precipitation and planetary rotation: #Jupiter

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-11-20 11:18:07

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Antonio Vivaldi, Jupiter & Thomas Dunford:
🎵 Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710, Sinfonia: II. [Andante]
#AntonioVivaldi #Jupiter #ThomasDunford
open.spotify.com/track/04ZwK0S

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-07 15:54:14

The #Juno spacecraft is still alive in #Jupiter orbit! Here is its radio carrier as observed today with the 20-meter dish in Bochum, Germany: #SwRI, hoping to learn more about its fate. If Juno gets a mission extension it would look like this: meetingorganizer.copernicus.or