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Robert Lea

Jupiter's winds whip around in 'cylindrical' form, NASA's Juno probe discovers

Half of Jupiter is seen rising like an orb from image bottom from the Juno spacecraft Sep. 7, with intricate stripes of different colored gasses striping the atmosphere.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has observed Jupiter's winds penetrating the gas giant’s atmosphere. These findings could ultimately reveal more about Jupiter's mysterious, and quite turbulent, interior.

What's more, the Jovian gravity data collected by Juno showed a team of international scientists that these atmospheric winds are whipping through the gas giant planet in a "cylindrical" manner, moving parallel to the planet's spin axis.

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