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New thunderstorms wider than Earth are spewing out green lightning on Jupiter — and could make one of the gas giant's massive bands disappear
New photos have revealed a pair of gigantic white thunderstorms raging in one of Jupiter's large reddish brown belts. The swirling storms, which are likely spewing giant green lightning bolts ...
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Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ Is Shrinking — And Scientists Think They Know Why
Revealed in a paper published in the journal Icarus, a series of 3D simulations of the Great Red Spot and Jupiter’s atmosphere included interactions between it and smaller storms. The results ...
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Lightning Storm
Recent images of Jupiter reveal giant thunderstorms in the Southern Equatorial Belt. Reports suggest these storms, unleashing green lightning, could blend pale hues into the reddish-brown band ...
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Webb Telescope’s Jaw-Dropping Jupiter Image Reveals Powerful Jet Stream
This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... likely high-altitude cloud tops of condensed convective storms. Auroras appear red. In doing so it was able to examine, for ...
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot isn’t as permanent as we thought
Simon said she agrees that the current spot isn’t the same as the smaller one discovered by Cassini: “Given that storms on Jupiter can’t move in latitude, and generally can’t grow much ...
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From gas giant to art gallery: NASA’s Juno mission captures the whimsical beauty of Jupiter’s atmosphere
NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an ...
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'You cannot walk on Jupiter': What makes this giant planet so different? Here's the answer
Jupiter’s atmosphere roils with storms and winds exceeding 400 mph, three times stronger than Earth’s fiercest hurricanes, creating a tempestuous environment. Descend 1,000 miles, and Jupiter ...