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                               2021 October 26

         IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/QSXgDiS2H_A?rel=0

                               Jupiter Rotates
     Video Credit & Copyright: [3]JL Dauvergne; Music: Oro Aqua (Benoit
                                   Reeves)

   Explanation: Observe the graceful twirl of our Solar System's largest
   planet. Many interesting features of [4]Jupiter's enigmatic atmosphere,
   including [5]dark belts and light zones, can be followed in detail. A
   careful inspection will reveal that different cloud layers rotate [6]at
   slightly different speeds. The famous [7]Great Red Spot is not visible
   at first -- but soon rotates into view. Other [8]smaller storm systems
   occasionally appear. As large as [9]Jupiter is, it rotates in only 10
   hours. Our small [10]Earth, by comparison, takes 24 hours to complete a
   [11]spin cycle. The [12]featured high-resolution time-lapse video was
   captured over five nights earlier this month by a mid-sized telescope
   on an apartment balcony in [13]Paris, [14]France. Since [15]hydrogen
   and [16]helium gas are colorless, and those elements compose most of
   Jupiter's expansive [17]atmosphere, what trace elements create the
   observed [18]colors of Jupiter's clouds remains a topic of research.

    Discovery + Outreach: [19]Graduate student research position open for
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   3. https://www.facebook.com/jeanluc.dauvergne
   4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter
   5. https://www.planetary.org/space-images/jupiters-belts-and-zones
   6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001123.html
   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140518.html
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200106.html
   9. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/in-depth/
  10. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
  11. http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/cat_washer.jpg
  12. https://vimeo.com/637785783
  13. https://youtu.be/72kRM86V-dw
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
  15. https://periodic.lanl.gov/1.shtml
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  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160626.html
  18. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981JGR....86.8797O/abstract
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