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Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.
The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.
probed tens of kilometers below the clouds to provide global context. Juno's Microwave Radiometer explored the deep ...
In a new study published in Science Advances, a team led by planetary scientist Chris Moeckel from UC Berkeley offers a ...
A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...
Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.
Assembled and enhanced from three Voyager 1 negatives, this picture shows Jupiter’s swirling clouds and Great Red Spot. Last July 4, when the Juno spacecraft executed a death-defying dive over ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft has resumed normal operations after entering safe mode twice during its 71st close approach to Jupiter on April 4.
For instance, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode relatively recently as scientists worked on remedying some ...