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Straight out of science fiction: NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures image of a dolphin on Jupiter’s surface
The NASA Juno spacecraft has once again amazed the world, capturing an extraordinary image of Jupiter’s atmosphere. This time ...
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Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ Is Shrinking — And Scientists Think They Know Why
Revealed in a paper published in the journal Icarus, a series of 3D simulations of the Great Red Spot and Jupiter’s atmosphere included interactions between it and smaller storms. The results ...
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Planet Jupiter, explained
The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...
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NASA Spacecraft Captures Blue 'Sprites' and 'Elves' Dancing in Jupiter's Atmosphere
On Earth, sprites and elves appear reddish in color due to their interaction with nitrogen in the upper atmosphere,' said Giles. 'But on Jupiter, the upper atmosphere mostly consists of hydrogen ...
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'Never seen before': NASA's Juno spacecraft captures 3D images of Jupiter's moon
A primary objective of Juno's mission is to quantify Jupiter's water abundance by analysing oxygen and hydrogen molecules in its atmosphere. Recent data suggests that water abundance near Jupiter ...
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Jupiter's mushball ammonia rain could explain the mystery behind shallow lightning storms in its atmosphere
The gassiest of all gas giants and the biggest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, is known for the storms raging across its surface — like the iconic Great Red Spot. And where there’s a ...
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A new NASA probe finds "abundant" water in Jupiter's atmosphere
At the equator, water makes up about 0.25 per cent of the molecules in Jupiter's atmosphere -- almost three times that of the Sun, said the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.