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Kiona N. Smith

Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere

One half of Jupiter is seen (the rest is off-screen toward the bottom of the image).

It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can leave a noticeable mark in the planet's atmosphere.

A recent study tapped into data collected by the Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft Juno and the Hubble Space Telescope to start piecing together how this gas giant's storms churn up the world's atmosphere — even surprisingly far below the clouds. This churning involves the storms dredging up ammonia in some places and hurling it far into the Jovian depths as slushy hailstones in others.

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