{"id":793838,"date":"2025-02-24T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793838"},"modified":"2025-02-24T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:55:09","slug":"huge-thunderstorm-on-jupiter-captured-in-best-detail-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793838","title":{"rendered":"Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best detail ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A 3400-kilometre-wide thunderstorm on Jupiter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Shawn R. Brueshaber et al. 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A thunderstorm that raged in Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere for weeks was fortuitously captured by NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft, giving astronomers the most detailed look ever at a storm on the gas giant.<\/p>\n<p>On 29 November 2021, Juno passed directly over a 3400-kilometre-wide thunderstorm that had been tracked by astronomers on Earth since it started nearly two weeks earlier. Juno\u2019s close approach, about 5700 kilometres above the storm, meant that Shawn Brueshaber at Michigan Technological University and his colleagues could analyse data from three of Juno\u2019s on-board instruments,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2469535-huge-thunderstorm-on-jupiter-captured-in-best-detail-ever-seen\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3400-kilometre-wide thunderstorm on Jupiter Shawn R. Brueshaber et al. 2025 A thunderstorm that raged in Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere for weeks was fortuitously captured by NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft, giving astronomers the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}