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Integrated Sequence of Events.

Having uniform properties in all directions.

Inertial Upper Stage.

Jupiter-like planets, the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, operating division of the California Institute of Technology.

Fifth planet from the sun, a gas giant or Jovian planet.

A range of microwave radio frequencies in the neighborhood of 12 to 40 GHz.

A temperature scale used in sciences such as astronomy to measure extremely cold temperatures. The Kelvin temperature scale is just ...

A planet orbits the Sun in an ellipse with the Sun at one focus.

A ray directed from the Sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times.