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Stefanie Waldek

Jupiter's raging gas cyclones may actually mirror Earth's oceans. Here's how

An image of blue swirlies on Jupiter.

How different are Jupiter's gaseous layers and Earth's oceans? Perhaps not as much as you expect.

Lia Siegelman, a physical oceanographer at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been studying Jupiter through the lens of Earth's oceans to determine what powers the gas giant's raging cyclones. "Jupiter is basically an ocean of gas," she said in a statement. 

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