Large thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in easiest element ever observed

A thunderstorm that raged in Jupiter’s environment for weeks was once luckily captured via NASA’s Juno spacecraft, giving astronomers essentially the most detailed glance ever at a typhoon at the gasoline large.

On 29 November 2021, Juno handed without delay over a 3400-kilometre-wide thunderstorm that were tracked via astronomers on Earth because it began just about two weeks previous. Juno’s shut manner, about 5700 kilometres above the typhoon, intended that Shawn Brueshaber at Michigan Technological College and his colleagues may analyse information from 3 of Juno’s on-board tools,…