On its 20th flyby to Jupiter, the JIRAM instrument onboard the Juno spacecraft found a seventh vortex (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

On its 20th flyby to Jupiter, the JIRAM instrument onboard the Juno spacecraft found a seventh vortex

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On its 20th flyby to Jupiter, the JIRAM instrument onboard the Juno spacecraft found a seventh vortex (5 o'clock direction) trying to join the original family of six vortices. But it failed to make it. The later flybys didn't observe the seventh one again

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Image credit: Alessandro Mura (National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome, Italy).

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