Storms on Jupiter are among the most powerful squalls seen anywhere in the Solar System.
Like familiar lightning here at home, lightning on Jupiter produces both visible light and radio waves.
Once every 53 days, the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter dips down low above the planet.
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The first of these a deep clouds composed ofwater.
The second are mammoth thunderhead columns that form from upswelling of air.
The largest concentration of lightning seen by Juno came from a swirling storm called a filamentary cyclone.
The convective towers, featuring thick clouds, are apparent in images from Hubble.
The Gemini telescope spied into the clear regions, glimpsing deep water clouds in their depths.
The Gemini team used a technique they call Lucky Imaging to produce their contribution to the three-mission study.
The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii was used to take a large number of photographs of Jupiter.
The most detailed of these recorded when atmospheric conditions were best were selected.
This resulted in images nearly as clear and detailed as those taken by space-based observatories, researchers state.
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
But, why they are there remains a mystery, despite study by several generations of spacecraft.
By combining data from the trio of observatories, it is now possible to answer that question.
The dark markings are, in fact, holes in the massive storm system.
This radiation seen in data from Gemini is blocked by clouds.
Its kind of like a jack-o-lantern.
This is our equivalent of a weather satellite.
We can finally start looking at weather cycles,Simon says.
This multi-messenger astronomy shows events in several wavelengths of light at the same time.
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