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Echoes From a Comet That Crashed in 1994 Have Revealed New Data on Jupiter – ScienceAlert
It collided with Jupiter in 1994, but Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 still apparently has things to teach us about the Solar System’s largest planet.
It collided with Jupiter in 1994, but Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 still apparently has things to teach us about the Solar System’s largest planet.
A new analysis of the traces of the comet’s impact still zooming around Jupiter’s atmosphere has yielded the first direct measurement of the gas giant’s powerful stratospheric winds, in the cloudless middle layer of the atmosphere.
There, narrow bands of wind known as jets like Earth’s jet streams blow at up to 400 meters per second at high latitudes. That’s…
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