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in the entire Solar System behind the Sun. Its greatest distance from Earth is just under 4 astronomical units, and we've sentYet, somehow, we're still only just finding never-before seen features in Jupiter's tempestuous clouds. Scientists have discovered a high-speed jetstream, some 4,800 kilometers wide, that hurtles around the planet's equator, above the cloud layer.
When you look at Jupiter in different wavelengths, you can see details that might not appear in optical ranges. You won't know, just looking at it through a telescope, that Jupiter has the most powerful aurorae in the Solar System, for example – becauseof the giant planet. These wavelengths are sensitive to upper levels of the Jovian atmosphere, the mysterious region that sits between 25 and 50 kilometers above the cloud tops.
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