The video also explores how lightning on Jupiter forms deep within clouds of ammonia and water, producing “superbolts” up to 100,000 times stronger than those on Earth, offering stunning insights into ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission’s 54th close flyby of the ...

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed in 2020 to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A storm near Jupiter's north pole, captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Ammonia-rich "mushballs" ...

A cross section of the upper atmosphere, or troposphere, of Jupiter, showing the depth of storms in a north-south swath that crosses the planet's equator, or equatorial zone (EZ). Blue and red ...

These storms are thought to contain a kind of water-ammonia hail ('mushballs') specific to Jupiter's atmosphere, which drags the ammonia down into the deep atmosphere and may explain the presence of ...

Can you imagine? Jupiter is the big brother among the planets in the solar system, with a massive size and a mass that is 2.5 times the total mass of all other planets in the solar system combined.

"We consider this phenomenon as a promising candidate to explain the fact that the solar activity is much more benign than ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over nearly ...

Eleven times wider than Earth. Over 300 times more massive. And a million times more terrifying. Jupiter may look like a beautiful ball of swirling clouds, but on the inside, it is a gaseous inferno.