A new discovery has been made about planet Jupiter’s stripes and the findings suggest that the stripes are much deeper than scientists had previously thought.
NASA’s Juno probe has revealed many interesting facts about Jupiter, reports Space.com. The probe says that the bold and colorful stripes run deep down the surface of the planet. They are actually clouds, which optical light cannot penetrate and thus, it is difficult to detect what lies underneath. However, Juno possesses microwave instruments and they can probe the clouds at different depths and are capable of peeling back the clouds like layers of an onion.
Principal investigator Scott Bolton said that the structure