Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar ...
Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A UC ...
Managed by JPL and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Europa Clipper is among NASA's most ambitious planetary ...
The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles.
Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...
A planetary scientist proposes that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune are layered, with deep oceans of water above ...
Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...
Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two ...