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Magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon haze at Jupiter's poles
In all 25 of Hubble's global maps that show Jupiter's north pole, Tsubota and senior author Michael Wong, an associate research astronomer based at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, found ...
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Magnetic tornadoes on Jupiter are spawning Earth-size storms
They were then confirmed at Jupiter's north pole by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it flew past in 2000 on its way to Saturn. But no one knew where the dark ovals came from. Now, planetary ...