part of NASA’s Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) p... Magnetic tornadoes twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere create massive, Earth-sized anticyclonic storms in the planet's atmosphere.

There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out ...

Giant vortices at Jupiter's poles ... analyzed images from the OPAL project (Outer Planets Atmosphere Legacy). Over 28 years of observation, eight dark ovals were identified at the southern ...

Jupiter is iconic, with its swirls of water and ammonia vapor that characterize its outer surface and its ... a high speed current in the gas giant's atmosphere — in the Great Blue Spot.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Massive Jupiter exerts a strong gravitational pull ... be pulled towards its ultimate demise in the planet’s outer atmosphere. OASES/PONCOTS reported that the flash was recorded around 1:48 ...

Recently, he demonstrated that the abundance of ammonia and cloud-top pressure in Jupiter's atmosphere could be mapped using commercially-available telescopes and a few specially coloured filters.

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out ...

Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map the abundance of ammonia in Jupiter's atmosphere, but Hill ultimately ...