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OCR: ATMOSPHERE Cloud top Aerosols Composition km depth Ammonia Jupiter atmosphere is largely hydrogen (90% by 3-5 km depth volume) and helium (4 .5% by volume). Ammonia, methane, ethane acetylene water vapor phosphine, carbon monoxide, and germanium tertrahydride are Ammonium present 0000001 in % small volume) quantites The (each very top between of the 0.1 and Hydrosulphide atmosphere, however is dominated by the molecules 60km depth shown in the chart to the left. It is these layers of molecules that compose the colorful bands of clouds Water Ice Crystals seen on Jupiter and Water Droplets 100km depth The basic layers (troposphere, stratosphere etc.) of Jupiter atmosphere resemble those of the Earth though each layer is about twice the thickness of the corresponding layer of the Earth' atmos ...