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The curious minds at What If question whether Earth could survive if Jupiter suddenly lost its massive atmosphere.
NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured auroras on Jupiter that have hundreds of times more energy than those here on Earth. Jupiter's auroras are like the "Northern Lights, but way bigger!
But as a gas giant, Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface made of rock like Earth or Mars. Instead, its beautiful appearance is due to its atmosphere, as it has a deep atmosphere with several ...
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes during the spacecraft's 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan. 28 ...
They thought the Hubble telescope would show evidence of the aurora-creating, high-energy cosmic particles slamming into Jupiter’s atmosphere—but it didn’t. “What we’re seeing is an ...
Jupiter's auroras, though, put Earth's to shame. Not only are the auroras on Jupiter gigantic, they are hundreds of times more energetic than those in Earth’s atmosphere, according to NASA. That's ...
These speedy particles, some of which are thrown into space by Jupiter’s orbiting moon Io, slam into the planet’s atmosphere at high energies and excite the gas, causing it to glow.