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NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.
The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter ... any known winds on Earth. Jupiter is a massive ball of gas. Its clouds are composed of ammonia and water vapor drifting in an atmosphere of hydrogen ...
Juno and Hubble images from 2017 showed a powerful updraft ... down to a depth where the pressure in Jupiter’s atmosphere is about 30 times higher than that at sea level on Earth. That means the storm ...
A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology, has discovered that a massive amount of ammonia is churned up and ...
Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.
Explore the amazing discovery of Jupiter’s swirling dark vortices and their connection to its powerful magnetic field and ...
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Imagine giant slushy hailstones made of ammonia and water wrapped in a shell of ice, plunging through Jupiter’s atmosphere in ...
Lucy spacecraft, which passed 200 miles above the Earth's surface ... Lucy's appearance in our atmosphere, people across the world were encouraged by NASA to share whatever images they can grab ...
Research published by scientists in England found a 2017 solar event compressed Jupiter's magnetic field, setting off aurora at the poles and heating in the upper atmosphere that spread across the ...
Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of ... is at sea level here on Earth, and that makes a useful baseline for saying how deep things are in Jupiter's atmosphere.