NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

The weather forecast for Jupiter calls for clouds with a chance of lightning and "mushballs"—a slushy mix of ammonia and ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

When Juno arrived last July, it made a two-hour pass from the planet’s north to south pole that brought it within 3,000 miles of Jupiter’s roiling cloud tops. Then Juno sped away, taking 53.5 ...

(CNN)-- Scientists don't know why, but one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has disappeared ... "that some 'ammonia cirrus' has formed on top of the SEB, hiding the SEB from view." ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else.

This flattened map of Jupiter reveals the distribution of ammonia beneath the planet’s cloud tops, extending tens of miles below the visible cloud deck. Red regions indicate where ammonia is depleted, ...

Jupiter is unlikely to be unique ... show that this simple assumption is false. "The turbulent cloud tops would lead you to believe that the atmosphere is well mixed," said Moeckel, invoking ...