NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSAn international team of astronomers just measured Jupiter’s raging stratospheric winds for the very first time—and they used a 27-year-old comet to do it. Scientists had already measured wind speeds down in Jupiter’s troposphere—where the planet’s iconic stripes lie—and way ...
Jupiter is absolutely vast. It’s so big in fact that we’ve only just scratched the surface of what we know about this gas giant. As a case in point, astronomers have just discovered 12 brand-new moons orbiting the planet that previously ...