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Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...
Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...
Jupiter’s rapidly changing atmosphere plays a key role in such occurrences. With winds reaching speeds of up to 620 ...
If an atmosphere is gaseous, it doesn't mean it's featureless and well mixed. In fact, Jupiter's atmosphere has structures scientists are still learning about.
The huge planet in the middle of our solar system has giant Earth-sized storms, a powerful magnetic field, and extreme auroras, a series of new scientific studies published this week show.
NASA has released spectacular new images of Jupiter's vast swirling clouds. The images were captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 72nd close flyby of the gas giant on Wednesday (May 7).
(CNN)-- Scientists don't know why, but one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has disappeared -- again. Like a wayward pet, the belt has gone missing before and has always returned. "This is a big ...
New data from the orbiter has unveiled some of the treacherous conditions of not only Jupiter, but its moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. The findings, which come after Juno has ...
A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off ... of the Coriolis force interacting with the whirling wind pattern belonging to each cyclone. However, on Earth, cyclones ...
The role of ammonia is like a splash of color in a flowing stream of water, Moeckel said: It acts as a tracer, revealing otherwise-invisible patterns and processes deep within Jupiter's atmosphere.