Jupiter Looks, Um, Different
New images of the planet allow astronomers to peer deeper into its stormy atmosphere.
by Marina Koren
May 14, 2020
2 minutes
For his high-school science-fair project, Glenn Orton chose to research Jupiter. It was 1965, and as the United States rushed toward the moon, Orton was mesmerized by the faraway planet, which he could see with his own telescope. He supplemented his project—which ended up winning the top prize—with images of Jupiter that he took himself.
Decades later, Orton, now a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies
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