NEWS & FEATURES

[ 18 August 2017 ]
North American Total Solar Eclipse, 2017

Radio Jove is part of a citizen science project in coordination with NASA's Heliospheric Education Consortium (HEC) to study the Sun and Earth's ionosphere. At least 25 groups will be making measurements of the Sun and the galactic background during the solar eclipse. We hope to detect changes in the ionosphere due to the effects of the lunar shadows covering parts of the ionosphere. Follow this site for data and updates after the eclipse.

See Radio JOVE's "Solar Eclipse Citizen Science web page".

[ 11 August 2017 ]
Jupiter Observing Season is History

As of early August, 2017, Jupiter is setting early in the evening skies. With little or no time for the ionosphere to become transparent at 20 MHz, the prime season for observing Jovian radio emissions in 2017 is at an end. Good luck observing the upcoming Solar eclipse!

[ 23 August 2016 ]
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Collecting Data at Jupiter

The Juno spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. It was placed into a polar orbit to study Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. See the Juno Mission Pages for the latest information.

Read Chuck Higgins' overview of the Juno space mission.

the birth of
planetary radio astronomy

Jupiter's natural radio emissions were first discovered near Seneca, Maryland. In 2005, Radio JOVE and the Carnegie Institution Department of Terrestrial Magnetism recognized the 50th anniversary of this discovery and helped publicize this milestone with a variety of events and presentations.

• Historical Poster
• JOVE Bulletin Article
• Radio JOVE Science Brief