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Nine polar storms surrounding Jupiter’s north pole

News 28 March 2018

New Juno Data Reveal Four Key Secrets of Jupiter

Deep clouds, polar storms, lopsided gravity, and a uniformly rotating interior demonstrate that the gas giant plays by different rules than Earth.
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Editors' Highlights 21 February 2018

Earth-like Oscillations Detected in Saturn’s Stratosphere

By comparing Cassini observations spanning ten years, Saturn’s equatorial oscillation is shown to have similarities to Earth’s Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and Semi-Annual Oscillation.
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Scientists get a glimpse of what’s going on beneath Jupiter’s thick cloud layer

Research Spotlight 27 June 2017

Huge Storms Disrupted Jupiter’s Fastest Jet Stream in 2016

Recurrent jet stream disturbances provide glimpses of what lies beneath the gas giant’s thick upper cloud cover.
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New research suggests Jupiter’s aurora are produced by processes unlike those on Earth

Research Spotlight 19 June 2017

Mysterious Particle Beams Found over Jupiter’s Poles

The unexpected character of the beams, revealed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, suggests that the processes that produce Jupiter’s auroras are unlike those on Earth.
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Research Spotlight 16 October 2015

New Atmospheric Wave May Shape Venus's Clouds

A novel model suggests that a new wave may be responsible for Venus's iconic Y pattern.
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Tribute 29 September 2015

Charles A. Barth, 1930–2014

Long-time director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics conducted pioneering studies of the atmospheres of Earth and other planets using ultraviolet spectroscopy.
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