The Juno spacecraft from NASA sent some stunning twisting and rotating clouds from about 7,578 miles above the planet Jupiter. In 2016, the orbiter started exploring the gas giant helping researchers unprecedented peek into the planet’s churning atmosphere, which is full of roiling cloud bands and rotating storms.

Violent winds are not just associated with the planets. On stars like our sun, the turbulence of magnetic fields can spawn towering structures in its regions which are called coronal loops. These twisting arcs formed of charged gas can stretch as much as above the solar surface that a total of ten Piles of earth can fit inside.

This big anticyclone rotates at high speeds of some 3,700 miles long, towards the southern edge of Jupiter’s northern pole. Researchers have been tracking the “eye” storm since the year 1993 as it changes its color over time.

In mid-summer days, the surface of the red planet, Mars heat up, and this turns ice into wispy clouds that hit in the turbulence above the north polar ice cap. A mission saw that the clouds form tight cyclones that look similar to the ghosts of the hurricanes commonly see on Earth.

The Juno mission by NASA helps unveil the imaginary flow of gases on the south pole of Jupiter. Multiple cyclones of the size of 600 miles occur in the atmosphere and according to new data, their roots extend very deep below the colorful surface.

On September 10, 2018, Astronaut Ricky Arnold successfully captured the vortex of Hurricane Florence onboard the International Space Station. Due to the storm swelling in size, millions of coastal resident were forced to evacuate the Carolinas. According to the scientists, Florence’s intense rainfall and large size were very likely due to the climate change.

On Earth, storms are not like that. Due to the Coriolis effect, cyclones being watched from space seem to appear to rotate in different directions solely different on which hemisphere is in your field of view.

In the northern side, cyclones appear to turn counterclockwise, which is same as the pair of swirls that formed in the year 2006 off the southern coast of Iceland. And opposite to that, in the Southern Hemisphere, they appear to be like they are turning clockwise.

The hexagonal storm of Saturn is unlike anything else in the whole solar system. Winds go around the north pole’s north in this six-sided jet stream at speeds of about 200 miles an hour.

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