Another massive storm on Jupiter is the Little Red Spot ... It has a very thin atmosphere compared to Earth, consisting primarily of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. It rotates once every 24.6 ...

When compared to giant, gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn, our Earth is tiny. But that doesn't mean we have to feel small all of the time, especially compared to the many moons throughout ...

The gas giant is covered in a swirling mass of clouds and storms that put any weather patterns on Earth ... in on many of Jupiter’s colossal vortexes. Lately, a relatively new storm has caught ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting the gas giant Jupiter since 2016 ... but it’s still absolutely huge when compared to any storms we see here on Earth. Juno has allowed NASA scientists ...

Visible to the left of this image, one of 77 composite photographs that appeared in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, the storm has raged on Jupiter for more than three centuries. In that time ...

shows for the first time global views of a dawn storm, a spectacular auroral phenomenon that occurs on Jupiter.

Take Mars, for example: Mars has a tilt of 25.19 degrees compared to Earth ... the Great Red Spot on Jupiter’s surface is a storm three times larger than Earth which has raged for hundreds ...

Ultimately you hit Earth’s surface, either land or water. Compare that with Jupiter: Start near the top of its mostly hydrogen and helium atmosphere, and like on Earth, the pressure increases ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the nighttime sky. The moon, nearly two nights past first quarter and ...

One of them is Jupiter. Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. So, trying to land on it would be like trying to land on a cloud here on Earth ... delicate compared to, say, NASA's ...