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ArticleBody:The gas giant Jupiter is a whopping 452 million miles away from Earth and more than 11 times bigger, but is similar in at least one way. Some of the geophysical forces behind the enormous planet’s infamous storms behave similarly to those on Earth. New research indicates that the roiling storms at the planet’s polar regions are powered by processes that are known to physicists studying the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean.
To better understand the role of the filaments between cyclones on Jupiter, Siegelman worked with co-author Patrice Klein of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and the Ecole Normale Superieure. They looked at a series of infrared images of Jupiter's north polar region that were taken in 30-second increments by Juno.
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