How to Use Jovian in a Sentence

Jovian

adjective
  • But any life on the Jovian moon would need to contend with some extreme conditions.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Regardless of Juno’s fate, astronomers won’t have to wait very long until the Jovian system is explored again.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • This could finally help researchers get to the bottom of why this Jovian moon is so violently volcanic.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This new insight into Europa will provide helpful context for the two spacecraft that are en route to the Jovian system right now.
    Julian Dossett, Space.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Indeed, some of these just-right planets were smaller than typical Jovian gas giants and could possibly be rocky worlds like Earth.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Along the way, Voyager 1 found a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons as well as five new moons orbiting Saturn.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
  • For distant Callisto, consigned to the outskirts of the Jovian system, Jupiter’s shining youth would have had no effect.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Unfortunately, that's a Jovian specialty, with exposure levels strong enough to give a human a lethal dose within as little as two and a half hours.
    David Szondy july 31, New Atlas, 31 July 2025
  • Wrapped around the bright spot of the updraft, darker patches shown in Juno's data mark where downdrafts carried a slushy mix of ammonia and water back down to the Jovian depths.
    Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • To take off toward its Jovian destination, Juice needed perfect conditions.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This estimate was lower than those from previous studies, which had found that the Jovian moon was making as much as 2,000 pounds of oxygen per second.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, recent observations of the Jovian moon, Io, have shown some intriguingly hot temperature changes across the surface of the satellite.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Scientists have detected contaminants all the way on Europa, another Jovian moon that’s hundreds of thousands of miles from Io.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Even that, however, means that Europa Clipper will not arrive in the Jovian system until April 2030.
    TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Clipper is now successfully on its multi-year journey to Europa, bristling with equipment to study the Jovian moon’s potential to support life—but just a few months ago, the mission was almost doomed.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Intriguingly, the Jovian moon itself has appeared surprisingly similar throughout all these missions.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Nearly a decade later, the spacecraft has delivered unprecedented research of the Jovian system, observing the gas giant, its many moons and faint ring system long past its intended lifespan.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • While researchers will continue to study the Galilean moons with Juno, the spacecraft will be joined by others in the coming years, potentially solving even more mysteries in the Jovian system.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Juno probe, meanwhile, continues to reveal new insights into the gas giant Jupiter and its Jovian moons nine years after arriving in 2016.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 June 2025
  • The images also call attention to our advancing knowledge of the Jovian system, and the solar system as a whole, recalling a time when Io was mistakenly seen as an inactive, idle place.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Once deployed, the array will harvest sunlight powering the Europa Clipper's voyage to the Jovian system, which it is set to enter in 2030.
    Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
  • With as much time flying around the Jovian system as a two-term president, Juno continues to pull back the curtain on the mysteries that remain on the gassy, gritty bodies about 484 million miles from Earth.
    Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Since its launch on an Atlas V rocket, Juno has performed very well while operating in the Jovian system, surviving extended operations in the harsh radiation of the planet.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2024
  • This Jovian pressure bump was essentially a chondrule factory that concentrated and incorporated this material into asteroids, the college notes.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025

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