How to Use Jovian in a Sentence
Jovian
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But any life on the Jovian moon would need to contend with some extreme conditions.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-09-22
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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, 2024-09-21
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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, 2023-04-24
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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, 2022-12-21
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Even that, however, means that Europa Clipper will not arrive in the Jovian system until April 2030.
—TIME, 2024-02-12
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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, 2024-10-15
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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, 2024-03-15
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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, 2024-04-26
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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, 2024-01-02
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