{"id":203250,"date":"2025-01-07T06:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/citizen-science-reveals-that-jupiters-colorful-clouds-are-not-made-of-ammonia-ice"},"modified":"2025-01-07T06:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:17:33","slug":"citizen-science-reveals-that-jupiters-colorful-clouds-are-not-made-of-ammonia-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/citizen-science-reveals-that-jupiters-colorful-clouds-are-not-made-of-ammonia-ice","title":{"rendered":"Citizen science reveals that Jupiter\u2019s colorful clouds are not made of ammonia ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/citizen-science-reveals-that-jupiters-colorful-clouds-are-not-made-of-ammonia-ice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter\u2019s clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice\u2014the conventional view\u2014it now appears they are likely to be composed of ammonium hydrosulfide mixed with smog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2024JE008622\" target=\"_blank\">The findings<\/a> have been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.<\/p>\n<p>The new discovery was triggered by amateur astronomer, Dr. Steven Hill, based in Colorado. Recently, he demonstrated that the abundance of ammonia and cloud-top pressure in Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere could be mapped using commercially-available telescopes and a few specially colored filters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter\u2019s clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice\u2014the conventional view\u2014it now appears they are likely to be composed of ammonium hydrosulfide mixed with smog. The findings have been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}