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Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Not the Same One Cassini Observed ... event on Jupiter's moon Io at a ... WASP-193b, a Giant Planet With a Density Similar to That of Cotton Candy May 14, 2024 ...
External forces, such as Jupiter’s magnetic field and solar radiation, may also influence the behavior of the Great Red Spot. The planet’s strong magnetic field interacts with charged ...
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 mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...
Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...
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Astrophysicists recently discovered that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is extremely hot. This new discovery could help explain a mystery that's plagued scientists for decades. Read more about the ...
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system ... Near the equator lies Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Visible to the left of this image, one of 77 composite photographs that appeared in our 2016 ...
Located in Jupiter's southern hemisphere, the Great Red Spot is a swirling, red-orange storm more than 10,000 miles wide. It's the fastest spinning planet too, with one day only lasting 10 hours ...