Images from the Juno spacecraft revealed bizarre, organized storms on Jupiter.
“Since 2017 the Juno spacecraft has observed a cyclone at the north pole of Jupiter surrounded by eight smaller cyclones arranged in a polygonal pattern,” the study authors writeJupiter’s south pole features a similar configuration, except with five storms forming a pentagon,
as opposed to the eight at the north pole that form an octagon. The researchers refer to the geometric north and south pole storm systems as “polygons: “The polygons and the individual vortices that comprise them have been stable for the 4 years since Juno discovered them. The polygonal patterns rotate slowly, or not at all.”to study the behavior of these storms.
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