Jupiter’s atmosphere, primarily hydrogen and helium, contains condensable gases such as ammonia, water vapor, and ammonium hydrosulfide. At lower temperatures, these gases were thought to form ...

Hence, the team conclude that the clouds of Jupiter really are at deeper pressures than the expected ammonia clouds at 700 mb and so cannot be composed of pure ammonia ice.

The cloud, which may be as much as 15 kilometers (over 9 miles) thick, is the first concentrated cloud of ammonia ice seen on Jupiter.

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers. Conventional ...

Here’s how it works. Jupiter's chaotic clouds and cyclonic storms, in an area known as a folded filamentary region, shine in a photo captured by NASA's Juno probe on May 12, 2024.

Eleven times wider than Earth. Over 300 times more massive. And a million times more terrifying. Jupiter may look like a ...

The Juno spacecraft made its 49th close flyby of Jupiter earlier this year, and NASA has shared stunning images taken as it whizzed by the planet's cloud tops.

The Juno spacecraft captured this image when the spacecraft was only 11,747 miles (18,906 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds — that’s roughly as far as the distance between New ...

Right in time for the spookiest holiday of all, NASA is showing off an eerie photo of Jupiter's noxious clouds — which are scary enough on their own already, considering that they're jam-packed ...

Since it entered Jupiter’s orbit in July 2016, Juno has orbited Jupiter once every 53 days. The spacecraft uses a suite of onboard instruments to peer beneath Jupiter’s cloud tops.

Images of Jupiter's moon Io, from Junocam, processed from raw data by citizen scientist Brian Swift. Image data acquired about 25 hours ago on 2022-07-05 4:22 to 5:33 UTC from distances for 86132 ...

An unusually pure cloud of young, fresh ammonia ice has been found on Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, the first discrete cloud of ammonia ice ever seen, though the planet is known to contain ...