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NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by ...
NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.
For instance, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode relatively recently as scientists worked on remedying some ...
Juno is scheduled for an upcoming flyby of Jupiter on May 7, during which it is set to carry out a close approach of the ...
A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...
Scientists have discovered that during storms on Jupiter, ice balls containing ammonia and water fall. This unusual ...
In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during a recent close pass of Jupiter, temporarily halting science operations.
Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else.
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform ...
The idea of mushballs was initially put forth in 2020 to explain nonuniformities in the distribution of ammonia gas in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere that were detected both by NASA’s Juno mission and by ...