6 stunning images of Jupiter captured by NASA
This image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures several storms in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere (Figure A). Titanic blasts created by the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments left Jupiter with ...
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The first photos of Jupiter's poles are 'like nothing we have seen or imagined before'
Gaze in awe at this moody, first image of Jupiter's swirling north pole: "[I]t looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before," Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research ...
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New spots discovered on Jupiter's poles can fit Earth inside them
His analysis revealed eight southern UV-dark ovals (SUDO) between 1994 and 2022, while only two northern UV-dark ovals (NUDO) were identified in 25 global maps of Jupiter's north pole. Experts ...
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Magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon ...
In all 25 of Hubble's global maps that show Jupiter's north pole, Tsubota and senior author Michael Wong, an associate research astronomer based at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, found ...
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NASA Juno images of Jupiter reveal giant storms at south pole
It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest pass over Jupiter's south pole, Juno snapped a series of images ...