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A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.

Researchers have observed mysterious "dark ovals," each roughly the size of the Earth, appearing on the polar regions of Jupiter on the ... forms due to swirling vortex dynamics rather than ...

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Which is what’s happened with the large dark spots suddenly visible on Jupiter’s surface. The “mysterious dark ovals” are ...

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Extraterrestrial vortices take many forms. Jupiter’s look like pans of sweet rolls. A hexagon bounds Saturn’s northern polar vortex. And Martian vortices act similar to Earth’s, spinning to ...