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Scientists Strive to Explain the Strange Weather on Other Planets
What the swirling storms on alien worlds can tell us about the climate on Earth. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this spectacular view of a Jovian vortex surrounded by bright, high-altitude clouds during the space probe’s 20th flyby of Jupiter, on May 29, …