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The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, the largest known storm in the solar system, is apparently shifting shapes, according to a recent report. A 90-day study, from December to March, of Jupiter using the ...

The weather on Jupiter—much like that on Earth—not just by the chaos going on inside the atmosphere but also by external forces including space weather driven by the Sun. In a study published last ...

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 ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and water encased in a hard water ice shell that rain down like hail here on Earth.

It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can leave a noticeable mark in the planet's atmosphere. A recent study tapped into data collected by the Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft Juno and the ...