Man uses a Game Boy Camera to photograph Jupiter - Popular Science

In April 1991, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft was a year and a half into its journey to Jupiter when it ran the commands to open its main antenna. Minutes later, telemetry showed that the motors had stalled. The 4.8-meter, umbrella-shaped dish had only partly unfolded, and it never fully deployed. Without that antenna, Galileo’s best remaining link to Earth was a small low-gain antenna that could carry only a tiny fraction of the planned data. What followed was one of the more inventive rescues in spaceflight: engineers rewrote the spacecraft’s software to edit and compress its data, rebuilt how Earth listened for it, and replanned the science around a far smaller data budget.

"All flybys are risky, requiring very careful planning and continuous monitoring."

by Tiffany RizzoSat, September 26, 2026 at 4:38 PMUpdated Sun, September 27, 2026 at 6:43 PMFor a group of Jupiter Community High School students, science class meant trading desks for waders and heading into the Indian River Lagoon. (PBCSD)JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — Jupiter High School students are helping track the health of the Indian River Lagoon through a fish study that has continued for more than 30 years. Students in the school's Environmental Research and Field Studies Academy spent Thursday collecting, identifying, and measuring juvenile fish near Jupiter Island before releasing them back into the lagoon. The four-year academy takes students into the field about once a month to learn about marine biology firsthand. During Thursday's survey, students used a 55-foot bag seine net to collect the fish. Biologist David Porter with the Loxahatchee River Environmental Control District said students have been collecting juvenile fish data at the site since 1994. The site itself has been studied by other groups since the 1970s. Instructor Aaron Lichtig said the project allows students to track changes in the lagoon over time.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Jupiter in ultraviolet light to mark the planet's opposition on 3 November 2023. Opposition is one of the best times to observe any planet, and means Jupiter is wonderfully bright to the naked eye.