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NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...
In a new study published in Science Advances, a team led by planetary scientist Chris Moeckel from UC Berkeley offers a ...
NASA’s Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter’s cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just delivered some exciting discoveries from Jupiter and its fiery moon, Io. The new findings, ...
Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The ...
The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked fierce lightning, and found huge methane plume storms rising from deep beneath ...
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. The latter works like ...
Jupiter is unlikely to be unique ... "There was a small spot under the cloud that either looked like cooling, that is, melting ice, or an ammonia enhancement, that is, melting and release ...
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. On the fiery Io ...