Amira Shehata wrote Saturday, October 21, 2023 12:30 PM Although James Webb Space Telescope Initially described as having the potential to reveal the outermost horizons of the universe, some of the observatory’s most precise images are actually images of our solar system, thanks to its gold-plated mirror cell and infrared equipment, such as the near-infrared camera (JWST). NIRCam, scientists announced that telescope images provide new data about a planet we thought we knew well: Jupiter.
Telescope image of Jupiter
According to what was reported by the “space” website, the images taken by the observatory were able to show completely new things about its moons, its atmosphere, and its rings, and now a team of researchers has realized that there is a high-speed jet stream on the planet that is more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) wide, and is moving quickly. About 320 mph (515 kph), stronger than a Category 5 hurricane, is something that has never been seen before.
“This completely surprised us,” Ricardo Hueso of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, and lead investigator of a paper describing the findings, said in a statement.
“This comparison can help us understand how wind speeds on Jupiter change with altitude and generate what is known as wind shear, which is somewhat similar to wind speed gradients over short distances,” the team explains.
