Ever since space probe Juno gave us our first incredible views of the poles of Jupiter, the regions have fascinated and mesmerized us.
In one of the latest pictures Juno has sent back of the north pole, you can see why: a medley of storm vortices, connected and interconnected, appearing serene from a distance, but raging with an intensity we can only imagine here on Earth.The image was obtained during Juno's 43rd close flyby of our Solar System's giant planet on 5 July, when the spacecraft skimmed a relatively close 25,100 kilometers above the polar cloud tops.
The image above looks relatively serene; zoom in to the cloud tops of Jupiter, however, and you begin to get a sense of the mind-boggling scale and ferocity of the planet's weather, as seen in"These powerful storms can be over 30 miles in height and hundreds of miles across,""Figuring out how they form is key to understanding Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the fluid dynamics and cloud chemistry that create the planet's other atmospheric features.
Between Juno flybys, scientists could observe the appearance of a seventh storm, so the pentagon became a hexagon. The north pole is even stranger: there, scientists identified nine storms, eight arrayed around one in the center, all spinning counterclockwise. And, at the high latitude regions around both these central polar concatenations of storms, other vortices rage.instead of merging into one mega-storm, as we see at Saturn's poles.
Citizen scientists can join in the fun, too. The above image was processed from Juno raw data by a citizen scientist. If you want to try your hand at that,
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