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Cylindrical Orientation of Jupiter's East-West Jet-Streams
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This composite illustration depicts scientists' findings that Jupiter's atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner and parallel to the planet's spin axis. The study, published in Nature Astronomy in October 2023, used gravity data from NASA's Juno mission. The top layer of Jupiter's atmosphere – the cloud level – was generated for this illustration using a combination of visible light images from Juno and NASA's Cassini mission.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineCylindrical Orientation of Jupiter's East-West Jet-Streams. NASA/JPL, 2023-11-09. Public domain. ID: PIA26076.
