Using fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have produced the most precise measurements yet of the solar system’s largest planet, showing that Jupiter is slightly smaller and more flattened than earlier estimates suggested.
The measurements are the first made of Jupiter's size and shape since both NASA's Pioneer and Voyager missions made observations of the gas giant in the 1970s, the agency said in a press release highlighting the study.
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