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PASADENA, Calif. — Jupiter’s clouds have deep roots. The multicolored bands that wrap around the planet reach hundreds of kilometers down into the atmosphere, NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, a trail of drifting clouds ...
NASA's Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter's cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its fiery moon, Io. Not only has the data helped develop a new model to ...
See Jupiter's “frosted cupcake” clouds in this 3D rendering created using data from NASA's Juno mission. It's the first time images captured by the visible-light camera aboard the spacecraft ...
Other experts agree with the leading theory that deep under Jupiter’s clouds a colorless ammonium hydrosulfide layer could be reacting with cosmic rays or UV radiation from the Sun.
Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter Published: June 20, 2016 7:51am EDT. Helen ... Jupiter’s shrinking red spot, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope over a number of years.
However, there are no known large oceans of water under Jupiter’s clouds. Based on what researchers do know, the atmosphere smoothly transitions to a liquid hydrogen interior within the planet.
The image was taken when the orbiter was soaring 7,900 miles (12,700 km) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, peering into a particularly stormy region. According to NASA, ...
Filed under Gemini Observatory, Jupiter. This image showing the entire disk ... a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, have probed deep into Jupiter’s cloud tops.
The findings, which come after Juno has flown close to the planet to peer under its cloud-covered atmosphere, shed light on Jupiter's fierce winds and violent cyclones.
Under such, strong updrafts during storms in Jupiter's atmosphere would lift tiny particles of ice tens of miles above the clouds, where they mix with ammonia vapour.
On each of its close passes over Jupiter’s clouds, ... (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with NSF and is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.