Jovian in a sentence

Juno launched in 2011 to explore Jupiter and its moons; over the last couple of years, the spacecraft has been taking and data of the Jovian system, especially of Europathe volcanic moon Io.

The astronomers who made the discovery, a team led by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution for Science, launched a earlier this year to name five of the new Jovian moons.

We may send humans to Callisto, which is resource rich, covered in ice, protected from ionizing radiation by the Jovian magnetic field and yet well away from its own ionization belts.

Achieving highly precise longitude remained a problem in geography until the application of Galileo 's Jovian moon method in the 18th century.

After Julian's death, Ammianus accompanied retreat of the new emperor Jovian as far as Antioch.

Because of its low radiation levels, Callisto has long been considered the most suitable place for a human base for future exploration of the Jovian system.

Because of this, there is a sub-Jovian point on Europa's surface, from which Jupiter would appear to hang directly overhead.

But in the following February Jovian died; and in October, 364, Athanasius was once more an exile.

Diocletian, in Jovian style, would take on the dominating roles of planning and commanding; Maximian, in Herculian mode, would act as Jupiter's heroic subordinate.

Discovery and observations Discovery image of Adrastea, taken on July 8, 1979, by Voyager 2. Adrastea is the fainter dot, in the very middle, straddling the line of the Jovian rings.

Giant planets are also sometimes called jovian planets, after Jupiter.

Godefroy Wendelin wrote a letter to Giovanni Battista Riccioli about the relationship between the distances of the Jovian moons from Jupiter and the periods of their orbits, showing that the periods and distances conformed to Kepler's third law.

He issued a decree banishing the bishops who had been deposed by Constantius, but who had been permitted by Jovian to return to their sees.

His army elected Jovian as the new emperor, and to rescue his army, he was forced to surrender Nisibis to Persia (also in 363) and to permit the expulsion of the entire Christian population.

His discovery of the Jovian moons was published in 1610 and enabled him to obtain the position of mathematician and philosopher to the Medici court.

In the novel, this obliterates the primitive life forms inhabiting the Jovian atmosphere, which the Monoliths' controllers had deemed very unlikely to ever achieve intelligence unlike the aquatic life of Europa.

Jovian Europa Orbiter was an ESA Cosmic Vision concept study from 2007.

Magnetosphere Magnetic field of the Jovian satellite Ganymede, which is embedded into the magnetosphere of Jupiter.

Mars has also exhibited cyclonic storms. citation Jovian storms like the Great Red Spot are usually mistakenly named as giant hurricanes or cyclonic storms.

Multiple spacecraft flybys collected the data for this Europa mosaic Galileo s prime mission was a two-year study of the Jovian system.