On My 25th 2017, in a report published in the journal Science, researchers from NASA announced their findings taken from data and photos from their Juno spacecraft. Juno has been orbiting Jupiter since July of 2016. The craft which is in a polar orbit has discovered that Jupiter is a very complex world. New data and photos have revealed that Jupiter's poles are a swirling sea of storms, while the planet has a stronger magnetic field then once believed.
Juno's Junocam and its instruments show that there are massive cyclones and vortexes spinning at Jupiter's north and south poles. Some of these storms measure 800 miles in diameter. The images show that these storms are densely packed together so that they are touching each other. At present, the researchers have no idea how the storms are formed or why the north pole looks different from the south pole.
The instruments aboard Juno have discovered a super deep band of ammonia that surrounds Jupiter's equator. The region has its own climate and researchers can't yet tell just how deep the ammonia band extends. Juno has also discovered Jupiter's magnetic field is not evenly distributed, being stronger in some areas and weaker than others. The researchers believe that this may suggest dynamo action at the planet's surface. Jupiter's magnetic field measures at 7.766 gauss which is 10 times greater that of the Earth's
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