On Jupiter, temperature is dependent on the planet's interior, not the sun. ... At the top of the atmosphere, temperatures can reach as high as 1,340 F (725 C), over 600 miles ...

Jupiter's atmosphere is one of the key science targets for NASA's Juno mission, which began orbiting the planet in 2016. The spacecraft is looking to measure the amount of water in the atmosphere ...

Jupiter is rather distant from the Sun, found on the opposite side of the Asteroid Belt than our Solar System’s inner-most planets, and as a result, the planet’s clouds are pretty chilly at about ...

A four-decade-long study documenting temperatures in Jupiter’s atmosphere using NASA spacecraft has revealed unexpected behavior in the gas giant’s weather over time. NASA says the study is ...

The temperature of the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, which orbits an average distance of 778 million kilometers from the sun, should be about –73° Celsius, says James O’Donoghue, a planetary ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is apparently also red hot: The highest temperatures ever observed on the planet were recently detected in the region above the ginormous storm. The Great Red Spot (GRS ...

Storm warning on Jupiter. A huge storm on Jupiter broke out in December of 2016, just south of the planet's equator and about 60 degrees east of the famous Great Red Spot.

Storms on Jupiter form ammonia-rich hail — called mushballs — in the atmosphere of the giant planet, new research reveals. Inv The Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter just revealed mechanisms ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the humongous storm that has roiled the gas giant for up to 300 years, heats the atmosphere above it to scorching temperatures, new findings show. Atmospheric ...

Jupiter’s third-largest moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. New radio images by the ALMA telescope array show the direct effect of this volcanic activity on the ...