The new findings were hailed as “invaluable” and “unlike anything we have ever seen” according to Caltech scientist David Stevenson. The incredible data was received from two of NASA’s spacecraft, Juno and Cassini from the gas planets, Jupiter and Saturn. According to researchers, the data could alter how scientists believe solar systems are formed and behave.
Mr Stevenson said: “Although there are puzzles yet to be explained, this is already clarifying some of our ideas about how planets form, how they make magnetic fields and how the winds blow.
“Any explanation for this has to be unorthodox.
“But science would be boring if it merely confirmed what we previously thought.”
Cassini spent 13 years orbiting Saturn before terminating itself by smashing into the planet two years ago.
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Juno, however, has been tracking Jupiter for the last two-and-a-half years.
Both spacecraft provided microwave information concerning the atmosphere surrounding each planet.
Mr Stevenson added: “Overall, a successful mission is one that surprises us.”
Mr Stevenson concluded that the groundbreaking magnetic and gravitational data was incredible “but also confounding”.
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With this new data, NASA hopes it can replicate the atmospheric pressures and temperatures on Earth in order to understand how Saturn and Jupiter work.
This recent news comes nearly a month after NASA declared its Opportunity rover dead after it disappeared in a dust storm on Mars.
The rover lasted longer than any other other Mars lander before.
Moreover, it also discovered that water once flowed on the planet while there may have once been life on Mars too.
