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New research led by Lia Siegelman, a physical oceanographer at UC San Diego s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the roiling storms at the planet Jupiter s polar regions are powered by processes known to physicists studying Earth s oceans and atmosphere. The geophysical commonalities spanning the 452 million miles between the two planets could even help facilitate an improved understanding of those processes on Earth.