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Jupiter’s colorful bands originate several hundred kilometers beneath the cloud tops, the 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 ...
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.
You’ve all heard the Planets Suite, right? Seven classical pieces that Gustav Holst used to ‘describe’ each of the known planets. I’ve always found the Jupiter piece a bit odd – the ...
Researchers using a technique known as “lucky imaging” with the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii’s Maunakea have collected some of the highest resolution images of Jupiter ever obtained from ...
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.
Storm clouds deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color.
Juno, a spinning, solar-powered spacecraft as wide as a basketball court, will arrive at Jupiter on July 4 to study the giant planet and take high-resolution images.
What science is Juno doing at Jupiter? Juno has nine instruments to help it gather data on the existence of a solid planetary core under Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops, the amount of water and ...
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.