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Polar cyclones on Jupiter
Polar cyclones on Jupiter.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant AST 1411952.]
Learn more in the NSF Research News story Researchers find cyclones on Jupiter caused by polar turbulence and convection. (Date image taken: 2022; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: July 13, 2022)
Credit: Enhanced image by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
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