Ultimately you hit Earth’s surface, either land or water. Compare that with Jupiter: Start near the top of its mostly hydrogen and helium atmosphere, and like on Earth, the pressure increases ...

Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere ... gyrating on its surface with roots that likely extend deep below the upper bands of clouds. Though Jupiter has been so intensely ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments ...

Jupiter’s atmosphere roils with storms and winds exceeding 400 mph, three times stronger than Earth’s fiercest hurricanes, creating a tempestuous environment. Descend 1,000 miles, and Jupiter ...

Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and ...

Jupiter's deep atmosphere absorbs radio waves ... Here the pressure is 2 million times stronger than at Earth's surface. And the temperature is hotter than the surface of the sun.

A powerful adaptive optics system compensates for blurring introduced by atmospheric turbulence ... ocean of magma under its rocky surface. Io, which orbits Jupiter every 42 hours, was imaged ...

“There is a lot of liquid water underneath the surface, maybe six times more ... “We’ve got instruments that will look at the atmosphere of Jupiter and its aurora, so in some ways JUICE ...

What lies beneath the high ammonia clouds is no less dramatic. As a gas giant, Jupiter has no solid surface. Instead, its atmosphere becomes gradually hotter and denser as you travel deeper, ...

What lies beneath the high ammonia clouds is no less dramatic. As a gas giant, Jupiter has no solid surface. Instead, its atmosphere becomes gradually hotter and denser as you travel deeper, ...