5 shocking facts about the gas giant bigger than all planets combined

Despite centuries of study, Jupiter still hides its deepest secrets. It has no solid surface, only layers of dense gas and possibly a core of rock or metallic hydrogen under immense pressure. Recent missions, particularly NASA’s Juno spacecraft, have revealed that Jupiter’s atmosphere is far more complex than previously thought, with ammonia storms, jet streams running thousands of kilometres deep, and strange ‘cyclone clusters’ circling its poles.

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