jovian

• The mission proposes to place a spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter to investigate the existence of an ice-rock core; determine the amount of global water and ammonia present in the atmosphere; study convection and deep wind profiles in the atmosphere; investigate the origin of the jovian magnetic field; and explore the polar magnetosphere. —  News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• What you're seeing here is light reflecting off of high haze, above the clouds we see in the usual jovian vistas. —  Signs of the Times
• They make a point of discussing the evolution of the disk during the growth of Jupiter by inflow: they explicitly examine the inherent instability of massive "spinout inviscid" disks and that with an appropriate correction in the model the mass DECLINES to about 0.4 jovian masses. —  New Scientist - Space
• That jovian planet that Boomer passed mid-way looked a lot like Jupiter to many people, and in fact Orion is in the background (but it's been everywhere.) —  Brad Ideas - Comments
• The major planets--or the jovian planets, if we give them a common title based upon the name of their chief, Jupiter or Jove--are relatively distant from the sun and are characterized both by great comparative size and slight mean density. —  Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries

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