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CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Scientists say that they captured the moment that a part of the sun’s plasma broke off and was swept into a polar vortex. The moment was captured by NASA instruments on Feb ...
NASA instruments captured the moment part of the sun appeared to break off from the giant star and get swept up in a polar vortex ... giant planets Saturn and Jupiter are also known for their ...
But now, a NASA citizen science project called "Jovian Vortex Hunter" is seeking volunteers ... But the jury's still out on why Jupiter's polar storms don't look like Saturn's.
The polar vortex is a circular flow in the stratosphere ... Storms can last a long time on Jupiter. In 1997, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft captured an image of white, oval-shape vortices, which ...
NASA released a photo of Jupiter that shows the planet in a whole ... "The reddish, wavy polar hazes are absorbing slightly less of this light due to differences in either particle size ...
Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have for years sought to ... team members track the movements of Jupiter's massive northern polar cyclone, as well as eight others surrounding it.