The Gemini Observatory in Hawaii has received the most detailed infrared images from Earth of the largest planet in the Solar System to date.
Infrared vision allows you to peer into the strong storms of Jupiter, because it can penetrate through a thin haze, but it is powerless in front of dense clouds high in the giant’s atmosphere. This creates an effect similar to the illumination of a photo with a flashlight, when the warm deep layers of Jupiter’s atmosphere shine through the cracks in the dense cloud cover of the planet.
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