Discoveries Deep Beneath The Clouds of Jupiter
Close your eyes and drift far beneath Jupiter's colorful clouds, where a hidden world of storms and secrets awaits. A gentle journey into the deep atmosphere of our solar system's largest planet. The Juno spacecraft has peered hundreds of kilometers below the cloud tops, revealing that the Great Red Spot extends 500 kilometers deep and that Jupiter's winds penetrate in cylindrical layers parallel to its spin axis[reference:0][reference:1]. Its atmosphere contains about 1.5 times more oxygen than the Sun, and cyclones the size of Earth churn at the poles[reference:2][reference:3]. Let these…
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