Educator Guide: Physics Helps Alien Rain Stay In Shape

The swirling clouds of Jupiter, captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, could release semisolid ammonia slushballs of precipitation. New work suggests that any liquid rain on Jupiter would be similar in some ways to rain on any other cloudy world.
Gerald Eichstadt/MSSS/SwRI/JPL-Caltech/NASA
About this guide
In this guide, students will learn how the laws of physics shape rain on other planets and explore how molecules interact within alien raindrops.
This Guide Includes:
Modeling molecules in alien rain
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