Jupiter’s beautiful multicolored surface is made up of waves of clouds… of ammonia gas and powerful jets of gas similar to the phenomenon of the “jet stream” on Earth.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft gathered a lot of interesting data during the closest approach to Jupiter’s magnificent sea of multicolored clouds.
Scientists have discovered that there are extremely powerful gas jets that cross the planet from west to east. It is similar to Earth’s jet streams, which are extremely fast winds that blow around the planet, like ocean currents, but otherwise they “flow” through the air.
Our earth has 5 rays, including 2 cold rays with 2 poles and 3 hot rays in the equatorial region – sub equatorial. The beam has a wind speed of up to 100-400 km / h and a width of a few hundred kilometers, which greatly affects the weather and climate.
The rays on Jupiter travel more easily than the earth because under Jupiter’s sea of clouds there are no continents, which means that the air currents are not affected by mountains or terrain. complex.
As noted by the Juno spacecraft, these extremely powerful air currents reach a depth of 3,000 km below Jupiter’s sea of clouds.
They cause disturbances from within, combined with light to create streams of clouds of ammonia – NH3, the notorious stubborn odor gas – creating beautiful lines, often white, reds, oranges, browns and Yellow.
Under a sea of mostly ammonia clouds, Jupiter is a completely gaseous planet with mostly hydrogen and helium.
Dr Navid Constantinou, an Earth scientist at Australian National University, said the discovery of these powerful drafts solved the mystery of the ‘giant’s’ beautiful, fantastic colors. man has been watching for a long time.
Dr Jefferey Parker, co-author of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US), said humans can apply their knowledge of this gas giant to further study the atmosphere and currents. air moving over the planets. These can provide a lot of useful data for studying the Earth’s atmosphere.
The research has just been published in the scientific journal The Astrophysical Journal.
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