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Jupiter's churning atmosphere
Jupiter's churning atmosphere captured by NASA's Juno mission. U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers studied images from the mission and used the principles of geophysical fluid dynamics to look for information about the conditions that cause polar and circumpolar cyclones on Jupiter.
[Research supported by NSF grant AST 1411952.]
Learn more in the NSF Research News story Researchers find cyclones on Jupiter caused by polar turbulence and convection. (Date image taken: 2022; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: June 26, 2022)
Credit: NASA
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