'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals

submitted by cm0002 to space 41 points | 4 comments https://www.livescience.com/space/planets/textbooks-will-need-to-be-updated-jupiter-is-smaller-and-flatter-than-we-thought-juno-spacecraft-reveals > Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than scientists thought for decades, a new study finds. > > Researchers used radio data from the Juno spacecraft to refine measurements of the solar system’s largest planet. Although the differences between the current and previous measurements are small, they are improving models of Jupiter’s interior and of other gas giants like it outside the solar system, the team reported Feb. 2 in the journal Nature Astronomy.