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The atmosphere of Jupiter is only a narrow surface layer, compared to the vast interior of the planet. The three clouddecks of Jupiter are to be found at different levels in the troposphere, while hazes of smog can be found higher in the atmosphere.
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www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/jupiter/lower_atmospher...
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Jupiter has a very active, turbulent atmosphere. It is best known for its Great Red Spot, a huge storm which has been raging far longer than any storm on Earth. ... What is the atmosphere composed of? More of less, Jupiter's composition is nearly an exact copy of the Sun. There is about 82 % hydrogen,
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starryskies.com/solar_system/Jupiter/jupiter_atmoshere....
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caused by convection currents ... driven by insolation and internal heat ... Jupiter rotates faster (10 h) and is 10 times bigger...
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astro.pas.rochester.edu/ast104/lec/lec20/tsld003.htm
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Jupiter orbits the Sun just outside of the Asteroid Belt. ... Atmosphere hydrogen, helium, methane; Diameter 142,983 kilometers; (88,846 Miles) ... This giant planet has no solid surface. Under its atmosphere is a large liquid ocean of hydrogen and water. What lies in between that ocean and the atmosphere? ...
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www.kidsastronomy.com/jupiter.htm
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A new analysis of data collected by the Galileo spacecraft's suicide plunge into Jupiter's roiling atmosphere has stamped a huge question mark over the prevailing models of how our solar system formed. The finding has been put forward by an international team of scientists. ... Where Jupiter now orbits,
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/11/991117154803.htm
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Atmosphere of Jupiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The atmosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. It is primarily made of molecular hydrogen and helium in roughly solar proportions; other chemical compounds are pr...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter
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Trouble is -- at the cool cloud temperatures Jupiter's atmospheric constituents should be colorless! Some suggest that more colorful hydrogen compounds well up from warmer regions in the atmosphere, tinting the cloud tops.
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Explanation: Every day is a cloudy day on Jupiter, the Solar System's reigning gas ... Streaks in the lower layer suggestively lead to a dark blue area, a relatively clear, dry region similar to the site where Galileo's atmospheric probe made the first entry into a gas giant planet's atmosphere on December 7th, 1995.
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Jupiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
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