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What do the clouds on Jupiter, dust storms on Mars and rainstorms on Titan all have in common? They look like they belong on ...
When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or ...
If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...
The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and water encased in a hard water ice shell that rain down like hail here on ...
And I couldn't prove it wrong." The 3D picture of Jupiter's troposphere shows that the majority of the weather systems on Jupiter are shallow, reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible ...
WASHINGTON — Scientists studying Jupiter's weather for nearly 40 years made some unexpected and slightly mysterious discoveries about how temperatures in the planet's different belts and zones ...
as Earth’s orbit swings our planet between Jupiter and the sun. Weather permitting, the gas giant will not only be brighter than most other stars and planets in the evening sky, but will also be ...