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 ...

Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to reach Jupiter, sailing within 81,000 miles (130,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. The Jupiter images in this photo montage, released by NASA in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instead, however, Jupiter's upper reaches had been creating a misleading impression. "The turbulent cloud tops would lead you to believe that the atmosphere is well mixed," said Moeckel ...

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 ...

Planetary scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, now say that hailstorms of mushballs accompanied by fierce lightning actually exist on Jupiter ... of the cloud tops does not ...

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 ...