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Chemistry of the sky god

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If you feel like shifting your attention away from what’s happening here on planet Earth in 2020 for a moment, join Bruce C. Gibb on a tour through the chemistry of the largest planet in the Solar System.

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Fig. 1: The Great Red Spot of Jupiter.

NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)11

Fig. 2: Storms at the south pole of Jupiter.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles12

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