Did you know…all those beautiful whirling clouds and storms you see on Jupiter are only a
Did you know…all those beautiful whirling clouds and storms you see on Jupiter are only about 50 km thick. They’re made of ammonia crystals broken up into two different cloud decks. The darker material is thought to be compounds brought up from deeper inside Jupiter, and then change color when they reacted with sunlight. But below those clouds, it’s just hydrogen and helium, all the way down. (Image credit: NASA Juno | Eichstädt / Doran) -- source link
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