Interestingly, Fresh discoveries on Jupiter. Geometric cyclones around the poles

The orange and white stripes that characterize Jupiter’s outer atmosphere extend thousands of miles deep into the gas giant, with geometric groups of cyclones forming at its poles. The new discoveries were made through analysis of data provided by the Juno probe.

In fact, – Data obtained thanks to the Juno probe.show us a brand novel Jupiter They are changing our previous knowledge of the giant planets scattered around the Universe – said Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute, ktory directs the research of the Juno mission.

Interestingly, W „Nature” were published fourrecentlyscientific articles on novel discoveries on Jupiter. The papers focus on the structure of the planet’s atmosphere under a visible cloud layer and of surprising discovery the clusters of cyclonesoIn Jupiter’s surrounding poles. All this thanks to the Juno mission.

Juno entered the gas giant’s inorbitAugust 2016. However, due to a malfunction related to the helium valves in the head engineownym of the probe, NASA engineers decided not to undertake this risky maneuver and Juno is currently an extended 53-day orbit and will stay there until the end ofinthe mission. According to the original roadmap, after dwochr laps the orbit tightening maneuver was to occur and the probe was to be in a 14-day orbit.

– Juno’s probe systems are so technically advanced that measurement capabilities have been improved by an more than ever order of magnitude when it comes to precision – admitted Bolton. This increased accuracy to scientists allowed detect an asymmetry in Jupiter’s structure at depths of nearly 3,000 kilometersow.

– This discovery surprisedthe entire teamoł. Details forces Juno show that the jet currents crossing Jupiter extend well below the depth where sunlight reaches, meaning that something other than weather may be driving these from – Bolton added.

Overall, Jupiter’s jets contain about 1 percent of the gas giant’s mass. This means that a mass equivalent to about three earths moves wokoJupiter in the form of these streams. On Earth, the atmosphere is less than a millionth of the planet’s mass.

The research also revealed that underneath the layers of the atmosphere, Jupiter rotates as a hard, rigid body. – In some waysob Jupiter is going from a layer of currentoIn the jet, ktore rotate as gorna as a matter of fact layer of clouds to a rigid body at depth, where everything moves together. This passage may have something in commonolarity with Jupiter’s strong magnetic fieldIt’ worthsnoting that – Bolton explained.

Scientists hope that the alter between atmospheric layers and those more solid, whichore lie below, will be revealed during the remainder of the Juno mission in the next few years.

Another . involves geometric arrangementsoin cycloneow at the poles of Jupiter as a matter of fact discovery – Before the Juno mission, scientists knew little.about Jupiter’s poles It turns out that sideow is barely recognizable when viewed from the pole Jupiter – noted Bolton. First of all, because from Earth’ perspective you simply can’t seesthem.

Images obtained from both a visible light camera and an infrared one showing the poles of the gas giant revealed geometric patterns of powerful cyclonesow. On the poThe northern pole of the eight cyclonesow surrounds one centrally located. All of them are kilometers-4600 4000 in sizeoin diameter. At the South Pole, the central cyclone is surrounded by five others. Southern cyclones are larger, with sizes on the order of 5600-7000 kilometersoin diameter.

– These cyclones are huge. Wind speeds are as high as 350 kilometersow per hour. They seem to exist as it turns out end together in harmony and are permanent. Surprisingly roThey differ from a single , patternthunderstormwhichory Cassini probe measured at Saturn’s poles – assessed Bolton.

As you may, know as it turns out Jupiter is the solar system‘s largest planet. Its mass is two and poł times the mass of all the other planets in our system. The gas giant has nearly 70 known moonsow.The planet is covered by several layers of clouds, ktore arranged in distinctive stripes visible from our planet. day A on Jupiter lasts about 10 hours.