Cyclones at Jupiter s North Pole
Explanation:
Juno's Jovian
Infrared Auroral Mapper
data was used to construct this stunning view of cyclones
at
Jupiter's North Pole.
Measuring the
thermal emission from Jovian cloud tops, the
infrared the observations are not restricted to the
hemisphere illuminated by sunlight.
They reveal
eight cyclonic features that surround
a cyclone about 4,000 kilometers in diameter,
just offset from the giant planet's geographic North Pole.
Similar data show a cyclone at the Jovian South Pole
with five circumpolar cyclones.
The South Pole cyclones are slightly larger than their northern
cousins.
Cassini data has shown that gas giant Saturn's north and south poles
each have a single cyclonic
storm system.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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