NASA’s Juno spacecraft, the agency’s flagship mission to Jupiter, continues to stream back an incredible amount of scientific data about the largest planet in our solar system just over four years after arriving in orbit.
Some of the most recent discoveries pertain to lightning in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, called “shallow lightning,” as well as indications of ammonia laden hail, which has helped scientists explain the ammonia loss in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere that has puzzled them for some time.