Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they ...
The centre of the polar vortex (white dot) is displaced from the South Pole (white cross). Credit: ESA/VIRTIS-VenusX/INAF-IASF/LESIA-Obs. Paris/Univ. Lisbon/Univ ...
Recent stratospheric data shows the vortex’s early formation is proceeding with lower-than-normal wind speeds and rapid cooling, two markers that typically precede Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) ...