Ultraviolet Movie of Jupiter's Polar Stratosphere

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ March 13, 2002

Unexpected dynamics in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, or stratosphere, including the birth and motion of a dark vortex wider than Earth, appear in a movie clip spanning 11 weeks of ultraviolet imaging by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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