How to Use Jovian in a Sentence

Jovian

adjective
  • But any life on the Jovian moon would need to contend with some extreme conditions.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The spacecraft is slated to start its 1.6-billion-mile trek from Earth to the Jovian system this October.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Regardless of Juno’s fate, astronomers won’t have to wait very long until the Jovian system is explored again.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • 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, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Even that, however, means that Europa Clipper will not arrive in the Jovian system until April 2030.
    TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This estimate was lower than those from previous studies, which had found that the Jovian moon was making as much as 2,000 pounds of oxygen per second.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Indeed, some of these just-right planets were smaller than typical Jovian gas giants and could possibly be rocky worlds like Earth.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • 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, 21 Dec. 2022
  • 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, 26 Apr. 2024
  • 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, 15 Mar. 2024
  • 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, 2 Jan. 2024
  • To take off toward its Jovian destination, Juice needed perfect conditions.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Intriguingly, the Jovian moon itself has appeared surprisingly similar throughout all these missions.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Scientists have detected contaminants all the way on Europa, another Jovian moon that’s hundreds of thousands of miles from Io.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024

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