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Mystery of Jupiter’s persistent geometric storms may be solved – Space.com
But scientists still don’t know how the weird storms formed.
The mystery of how giant cyclones stay together in geometric patterns around the poles of Jupiter may now be solved, but new questions have emerged as to how these clusters formed in the first place, a new study finds.
After NASA’s Juno probe entered orbit around Jupiter in 2016, the spacecraft discovered giant cyclones arranged in geometric patterns around the world’s poles. At the planet’s north pole, there are eight vortices surrounding a central vortex, and at the south pole there are six. …
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