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16.11 / 14:01
Surprise! Solar storms causing mysterious heat waves and AURORAS - on Jupiter
While all eyes are on the Moon as the NASA Artemis 1 spacecraft was successfully launched today after multiple delays, scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding Jupiter's atmosphere and solving a mystery that has puzzled astronomers for decades. It turns out that the upper atmosphere of Jupiter is very hot at about 400 degrees Celsius. This is comparable to the temperature of the Earth's upper atmosphere. However, the gas giant is five times away from the Earth, which means there is no way it receives as much sunlight to maintain such a high temperature. This was the puzzle, which is also known as the energy crisis of Jupiter in academic circles. Read on to know how a group of scientists were able to solve it.