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Jupiter's Polar Vortices Over Five Years
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Space / 2021-10-28

Jupiter's Polar Vortices Over Five Years

Jupiter's Polar Vortices Over Five Years

NASA's image library records Jupiter's Polar Vortices Over Five Years.

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

This annotated composite image depicts the movement of the polar and circumpolar cyclones of Jupiter's south pole between 2016 (left) and 2021 (right) as seen by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. In both images, five cyclones are arranged as a pentagon, with a sixth cyclone in the center (south pol

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A CLOSER LOOK

This annotated composite image depicts the movement of the polar and circumpolar cyclones of Jupiter's south pole between 2016 (left) and 2021 (right) as seen by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. In both images, five cyclones are arranged as a pentagon, with a sixth cyclone in the center (south pole). JIRAM "sees" in infrared light not visible to the human eye. It was designed to capture the infrared light emerging from deep inside Jupiter, probing the weather layer down to 30 to 45 miles (50 to 70 kilometers) below Jupiter's cloud tops. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24967

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NASA Image and Video LibraryJupiter's Polar Vortices Over Five Years

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