NASA has unveiled the latest images of terrifying vortices raging in Jupiter's atmosphere

Jupiter is a gaseous planet.

There is no mainland on it.

Instead, it has an extremely dense atmosphere in which incredibly dynamic processes occur continuously.

As a result, cyclones appear there, the images of which are terrifying.

Most of them occur around the north and south poles of the planet, NASA has just published amazing images of as many as 8 cyclones whirling around the central, located at the North Pole.

Information from the Juno probe shows that a similar formation is also found at the South Pole, which is a more dynamic place. Back in October 2018, there were a total of 6 of them, and now it is 7. This spring another was born and joined the group.

But it doesn't stop there.

There are two more in the process of forming.

Scientists indicate that these phenomena are independent and will never connect with each other. At the North Pole, the vortices formed something unusual, because the formation resembles an octagon.

Together, their area is larger than our planet.

Each of the cyclones has a diameter of not less than 4,000 kilometers.

These phenomena extend about 70 kilometers deep into Jupiter's dense atmosphere.

Winds blowing in them reach 360 km / h.

Astronomers still know little about these phenomena, but they hope the Juno spacecraft will send more valuable data to Earth in its next close passes. Jupiter is not the only gaseous planet in our solar system to boast of having unusual formations in its solar system.

dense atmosphere.

Recently, NASA released images of a giant hexagonal-shaped polar storm on Saturn (see here).

Unlike Jupiter, it is one big storm on Lord of the Rings, not six independent phenomena.