Juno spacecraft spots meteor fireball lighting up Jupiter’s skies

By Will Gater

NASA’s Juno probe, presently circling around Jupiter, has actually identified what seems the intense blast of a meteoroid plunging into the world.

The serendipitous discovery was made by among the spacecraft’s spectrometers, which records ultraviolet views of the world. The instrument was observing the ultraviolet radiance from aurorae dancing in Jupiter’s upper environment when it spotted an effective burst of light appearing in the huge world’s night-time skies in April in 2015.

Real observations of such explosive occasions are unusual, and just a handful of Jovian effects …