Interior Inside Jupiter S Red Spot

The well known red spot is a huge long lasting storm.

Interior inside jupiter s red spot. Citizen scientist björn jónsson created the. Understanding the great red spot is not easy and it s mostly jupiter s fault. The reddish brown and white stripes of jupiter are made up of swirling clouds.

Including a swirling structure on the inside of the spot a curious hook like cloud feature on its. Jupiter s great red spot rotates counterclockwise with a period of about six earth days or fourteen jovian days. An ancient storm it is so large that three earths could fit inside it.

Following is a transcrip. A planet a thousand times as big as earth jupiter consists mostly of gas. Measuring 16 350 km 10 160 mi in width as of 3 april 2017 jupiter s great red spot is 1 3 times the diameter of earth.

No one knows exactly how hot but scientists think it could be about 43 000 f 24 000 c near jupiter s center or core. Back in may gemini zoomed in on intriguing features in and around jupiter s great red spot. Jupiter s climate is extraordinary phenomenons like the great red spot just appear on this planet.

As voyager 1 flew by jupiter in 1979 it captured this photo of the great red spot. The great red spot is an anti cyclonic high pressure storm on jupiter that can be likened to the worst hurricanes on earth. Measuring about 4 800 km 3 000 miles across clyde s spot is one of several convective storms that occasionally erupt in jupiter s south temperate belt.

But that s just one thing that s making jupiter exceptio. This true color image shows what jupiter s great red spot would look like to a human observer from the position of nasa s juno jupiter orbiter. The cloud tops of this storm are about 8 km 5 0 mi above the surrounding cloud tops.