NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...
"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...
However, since Amalthea takes less than half a day to orbit Jupiter, its temperature could be due to tidal stresses caused by Jupiter’s gravity, which creates a lot of friction and heat within it.
Jupiter, the gas giant ... allowed for unprecedented precision in measuring the pressure and temperature of the clouds. The results surprised scientists: the visible clouds are located in areas ...
MUSE uses the power of spectroscopy, where Jupiter's gases create telltale ... in a region of higher pressure and higher temperature. Too warm, in fact, for the condensation of ammonia.
As the pressure and temperature increased ... helium would separate about 11,000 kilometers below the cloud tops of Jupiter, down to a depth of about 22,000 kilometers.
Amateur astronomer Steven Hill, based in Colorado, used commercial telescopes and color filters to map ammonia in Jupiter's atmosphere. His technique, based on spectroscopy, allowed for unprecedented ...