On March 1, 2023, NASA’s Juno mission completed its 49th close flyby of Jupiter. As the spacecraft flew low over the giant planet’s cloud tops, its JunoCam instrument captured this look at ...

Small, frequent lightning storms zip across Jupiter’s cloud tops. NASA’s Juno spacecraft spotted the flashes for the first time, scientists report August 5 in Nature. “It’s a very exotic ...

"All of our pictures are of the cloud tops. Jupiter is a ball of gas and all we will see are clouds," Hansen explained. Juno was launched in 2011 and landed on Jupiter in 2016. The goal of the ...

20, when it dipped close to Jupiter's cloud tops. The first mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter ...

Per NASA, the image was taken from approximately 4,800 miles above Jupiter's cloud tops. And though the whole half-covered-in-darkness thing certainly adds to the creepiness of the face ...

A VLA radio map of the complex upwellings of ammonia in the region around the Great Red Spot (top), next to a visible image of the spot's cloud tops ... the atmosphere of Jupiter using a radio ...

These mushballs are created by thunderstorm clouds located around 40 miles (64 kilometers) beneath Jupiter’s cloud tops. The thunderstorm clouds carry water ice all the way up toward extreme ...

The gravity data revealed that the Great Red Spot’s atmospheric “roots” extend no more than 500 kilometers below the cloud tops of Jupiter. And it likely doesn’t have a sharp cut off at ...

This flattened map of Jupiter reveals the distribution of ammonia beneath the planet’s cloud tops, extending tens of miles below the visible cloud deck. Red regions indicate where ammonia is depleted, ...

Jupiter's a looker. The gas giant planet has ... The researchers used JunoCam data to build digital elevation maps of cloud tops, leading to stunning images and an animation that make it feel ...

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities ... 10 to 20 kilometers (6.2 to 12.4 miles) below the visible cloud tops. Some weather systems, however, plunge much deeper into the ...