Researchers used ALMA to capture images of the moon as it moved into and out of Jupiter’s shadow to understand more about the moon’s atmosphere. “When Io passes into Jupiter’s shadow ...

Here’s how it works. The atmosphere of Jupiter essentially makes up the entire planet. The gas giant has no firm surface to touch down on. Instead, it is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and ...

whereas on Jupiter the vortices form at the top, in this upper layer of the atmosphere 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles) thick. According to the model, this accounts for the backwards movement of ...

Becker/Koji Kuramura It is also these hot regions that may power the exotic lightning and slushy mushballs found in Jupiter’s atmosphere. “High up in the atmosphere, where shallow lightning is ...

5 (UPI) --Jupiter's atmosphere ... colleagues hope to continue refinement of the model, in addition to more detailed observations of Juno's atmosphere, will narrow the gap between the model's ...

An unexpected "heat wave" of 700 degrees Celsius, extending 130,000 kilometers (10 Earth diameters) in Jupiter's atmosphere, has been discovered. James O'Donoghue, of the Japanese Aerospace ...

But as a gas giant, Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface made of rock like Earth or Mars. Instead, its beautiful appearance is due to its atmosphere, as it has a deep atmosphere with several ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else. It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can ...

The atmosphere on Jupiter is radically different from that on Earth. It's primarily made of hydrogen and helium gas with trace amounts of gaseous molecules, like ammonia and water, which are ...

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In the more saturated image, you can see features of Jupiter’s atmosphere like its deep swirling vortices, and the different colors can help to pick out different chemicals making up the atmosphere.