All of the cool new things we learned about Jupiter this week — and some jaw-dropping photos

South pole of Jupiter.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles)

New findings released this week by NASA revealed how much we still have to learn about Jupiter. The results thus far from NASA's Juno mission, which launched in August 2011 but just reached Jupiter in July, uncovered an array of astonishing and unexpected facts about the solar system's largest planet:

  • Jupiter's top and bottom poles are enveloped in massive cyclones, some spanning 870 miles across.

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