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The Great Red Spot Descends Deep Into Jupiter
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Trilobites
By KENNETH CHANG
NEW ORLEANS — Jupiter's Great Red Spot is not just a skin-deep beauty mark.
Instead, the iconic storm descends at least 200 miles beneath the clouds and possibly much deeper.
That is one of the latest findings of NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which passed directly over the storm in July.
The Juno scientists presented their latest findings this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans.
Before Juno, astronomers could only observe the swirling of the cloud tops in the Great Red Spot, which is 10,000 miles wide — large enough to swallow Earth. Last year, scientists using an infrared telescope in Hawaii reported that the atmosphere 350 to 600 miles above the spot was exceptionally hot, averaging 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
But no one knew what was happening below the clouds. Scientists wondered whether the storm was shallow and confined to that slice of the atmosphere or if it descended hundreds or thousands of miles into the planet.
An instrument on Juno measures microwave emissions, which pass through the clouds into space. Warmer regions generate more microwaves, and the region below the Great Red Spot was warmer, even 200 miles down, the deepest that the microwave instrument could peer. The deep heat likely explains the source of the energy driving the storm.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus 13
What could be the source of the heat?
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: MindBodySpiritComplex
That storm (aka Red Spot) has been stationary in the same position for as long as man has know about it. It's "rooted" to something.
originally posted by: ManFromEurope
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: MindBodySpiritComplex
That storm (aka Red Spot) has been stationary in the same position for as long as man has know about it. It's "rooted" to something.
That is not correct. It moves. You can get the position for example from this site: JUPOS - Database for Object Positions on Jupiter.
In fact, the Great Red Spot stays in the same band to the north/south bordered by two high-pressure areas, but does wander around to the west, if I read this diagram correctly. The graph below shows the drift of the Great Red Spot in recent time.
What could be the source of the heat?
originally posted by: Ophiuchus 13
What could be the source of the heat?
originally posted by: ShadowChatter
What could be the source of the heat?
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originally posted by: Ophiuchus 13
What could be the source of the heat?