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A narrow high-altitude jet in Jupiter’s equatorial atmosphere

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JWST observations of Jupiter reveal a narrow and intense atmospheric jet at the equator of the planet, close to its tropopause. The jet is manifest in the fast motions of equatorial hazes and is most likely a deep counterpart of the equatorial oscillations observed in Jupiter’s stratosphere.

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Fig. 1: Jupiter observed by JWST, and its equatorial jet.

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This is a summary of: Hueso, R. et al. An intense narrow equatorial jet in Jupiter’s lower stratosphere observed by JWST. Nat. Astron. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-023-02099-2 (2023).

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A narrow high-altitude jet in Jupiter’s equatorial atmosphere. Nat Astron 7, 1423–1424 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-023-02100-y

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