Giant New Cyclone Discovered at Jupiter's South Pole

NASA's Juno spacecraft picked out a hexagon of storms hidden beneath the top layer of Jupiter's clouds.

By Erika K. Carlson
Dec 12, 2019 10:30 PMDec 12, 2019 10:44 PM
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A sixth storm has been discovered churning beneath the clouds of Jupiter. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM)

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Juno, a NASA spacecraft that has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has discovered a huge new cyclone at the gas giant’s south pole. It's the sixth in what's now a hexagonal array of cyclones surrounding one central storm at the pole.

Scientists announced the discovery Thursday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. 

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