OH, YOU LIKE JUPITER'S BANDS? NAME ONE SONG

 Oh, you like Jupiter's bands? Name one song:

@NASAWebb has discovered a new, never-before-seen feature in Jupiter’s atmosphere: a high-speed jet stream. Sitting above Jupiter’s equator above the main cloud decks, the jet stream spans more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) wide. The discovery of this jet is giving insights into how the layers of Jupiter’s famously turbulent atmosphere interact with each other, and how Webb is uniquely capable of tracking those features.⁣

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Combining recent @NASAHubble and Webb observations allows scientists to measure how fast Jupiter’s winds change with altitude. The two telescopes’ different wavelengths also revealed the 3D structure of storm clouds on Jupiter, plus how rapidly storms develop.⁣

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Image description: Jupiter dominates the black background of space. The image is a composite, and shows Jupiter in enhanced color, featuring the planet’s turbulent Great Red Spot, which appears white here. The planet is striated with swirling horizontal stripes of neon turquoise, periwinkle, light pink, and cream. The stripes interact and mix at their edges like cream in coffee. Along both of the poles, the planet glows in turquoise. Bright orange auroras glow just above the planet’s surface at both poles.⁣

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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Hueso (University of the Basque Country), I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley), T. Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), L. Fletcher (University of Leicester), M. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), J. DePasquale (STScI)⁣

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                          20 October 2023