Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best detail ever seen

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A 3400-kilometre-wide thunderstorm on Jupiter

Shawn R. Brueshaber et al. 2025

A thunderstorm that raged in Jupiter’s atmosphere for weeks was fortuitously captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, giving astronomers the most detailed look ever at a storm on the gas giant.

On 29 November 2021, Juno passed directly over a 3400-kilometre-wide thunderstorm that had been tracked by astronomers on Earth since it started nearly two weeks earlier. Juno’s close approach, about 5700 kilometres above the storm, meant that

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at Michigan Technological University and his colleagues could analyse data from three of Juno’s on-board instruments,…

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