Jupiter’s Deep Storms

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· Jupiter detail with Great Red Spot: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Kevin M. Gill

· Simulation of Great Red Spot winds: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Gerald Eichstadt, Justin Cowart

· Jupiter detail of southern jet streams: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Tanya Oleksuik

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Objects and gases of various colors in outer space. Text, News from the Universe

 

November 15, 2021. Jupiter's Deep Storms

 

NASA's Juno mission has probed deep beneath Jupiter's famous cloud features to understand the atmosphere's structure.

 

The storms extend far deeper than expected.

 

Jupiter's famous anticyclone, the Great Red Spot, reaches 300 miles (500 km) below the cloud tops.

 

The Juno results show the anticyclones are colder at the top but warmer at the bottom, and the reverse is true of Jupiter's cyclones.

 

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