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How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths

  • Written by Benjamin Roulston, Assistant Professor of Physics, Clarkson University
imageA photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuikimage

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